One must understand the Four Noble Truths to become a Stream-Enterer (Sotāpanna), Once-Returner (Sakadāgāmī), Non-Returner (Anāgāmī), and Arahant. Without understanding the Four Noble Truths, can one become a Stream-Enterer? Without becoming a Stream-Enterer, can one become an Arahant? #You_must_start_with_Stream-Entry.
Isn't this worth examining? Think about it. Thinking is practicing. That's why in the middle circle of the Two Roots, what are they? (Avijjā and Taṇhā, Venerable Sir). Consider this - in the structuring of truths, isn't wrong attention included?
#Wrong_attention_leads_to_craving,_the_Truth_of_Origin. When there's a cause of origin, don't the resultant aggregates arise? #When_aggregates_arise,_can_one_escape_aging,_sickness,_and_death? What truth is this? (The Truth of Suffering, Venerable Sir). Isn't this worth examining?
We need to understand both the Truth of Origin and the Truth of Suffering. Isn't it taught that right understanding comes from truly comprehending the Truth of Suffering? Doesn't wrong view cease? #Ignorance_ceases. Isn't this the #breaking_of_Dependent_Origination_at_its_source?
Now, in the moment of seeing and hearing, arising and passing away - what truth is this? (Truth of Suffering, Venerable Sir). Can the second still lead to the third? #Isn't_the_middle_cut_off? #Doesn't_the_end_stop? This is what needs to be understood. Only through understanding can we abandon.
It's about wrong and right attention, these two. #Right_understanding_is_needed. Isn't it taught that right view comes from truly comprehending suffering? Doesn't wrong view cease? Does craving still come? Does clinging still come? Craving comes from wrong attention. Isn't it taught "Dependent on feeling, craving arises"?
When one knows feeling as impermanent, suffering, and non-self, doesn't feeling cease after being experienced? What truth is this? (Truth of Suffering, Venerable Sir). When understood this way, does craving still come? With the cessation of feeling (comes the cessation of craving, Venerable Sir).
Now, #we_wrongly_attend_to_feelings_as_being_a_person_or_being. Don't we mistake it with food and drink? That's "dependent on feeling, craving arises." When knowing it as just feeling, doesn't view fall away? Doesn't doubt cease? Doesn't it pass away after being experienced? #Do_you_find_feelings_or_find_their_absence?
Isn't it taught that absence is impermanence? Isn't understanding taught as the Path? Does craving still come? Does clinging still come? Don't the taints of sensuality and becoming cease? When feeling is understood, the taints of views and ignorance cease.
When the characteristic of impermanence and Truth of Suffering are understood, don't the taints of sensuality and becoming cease? Don't all four taints end? When they end, doesn't the Truth of Origin die? Doesn't the cycle of aggregates end? #This_is_the_Truth_of_Cessation.
