These lists can be true in many cases. Several of the ones from the "non-Buddhist country" list had applied to me in the past.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to think about these things. It is beneficial to contemplate!

Nirvana is seeing that craving and attachment (clinging) leads to suffering. Nirvana is seeing that all things are impermanent. Nirvana is seeing that all things are not-self, related and interdependent but of no self-essence. Nirvana is seeing that all things arise from conditions, are supported by...

There is nothing carried, only related. If you harm someone and they later harm you, this is not because you or any part of you carried anything. It is due to the attachment in the mind of another, a seed planted within their mind which ripens in the form of violence upon you. Causes of related Effe...

There are no perfect answers or scenarios. Please take the following as it seems reasonable to you. Self-defense is acceptable insofar as the intent is to protect life. If an attacker were to come at you, violence would be acceptable to defend your life as long as the intent is not to kill the attac...

There is only seeing things with Right View, and not seeing things with Right View.
What one chooses to do at any point is always an option.

If you're looking at a television show, there is sight and sound. There's no one who owns that sight and sound, no self, simply sight and sound. Sight-consciousness, sound-consciousness, emotional feelings, perceptions, all arising and passing at each moment. No owner, no self. "Be the observer...

I do recall at one point in one of the sutras, the Buddha proclaiming that among all of his monks, the least enlightened had entered the stream (Ananda). I think this was near his death, and it would display the Buddha speaking of another's state of mind, rather than Ananda making any kind of statem...

Welcome to the forum. :smile: Be careful about being firmly rooted! Remember it's a raft to lead your mind to the "other shore" of Nirvana. The more we cling to the raft, the more difficult it is to free-flow toward the destination. Use it, but don't take it to be the truth itself. It is o...

That may be so, but this: All ties — human & divine — have been cut. Having cast off all effluents, cooled am I, unbound. seems to pretty unmistakably say at least "stream-entry." If you'd take it as saying stream-entry, that is what it would be saying, not "stream-enterer"....

That is exactly so! There is nothing strange about the fact that they are similar, indeed this is to be expected from two minds that have both cast off the fetters of the conceptual world. Hi AjahnDoe, A good point that it is not phrased as: "I am an Arahant". But that's also the case with...

Interesting, I must have misread! Thank you for the correction and details.

It may be worth noting that this women (quoted above) was speaking of her state of mind in comparison to how it used to be, speaking of freedom. This is different from declaring or calling oneself a Stream-Winner, Once-Returner, Non-Returner or Arahant. The difference is subtle, but it is there. Thi...

Ajahn Chah spoke directly and simply of the truth, and Ajahn Sumedho is not only his student, but also the first to open a Thai Forest monastery in the USA.

Well done.

When there is one area where you feel you are lacking, you should focus on that area. This is Right Effort, and it applies to all factors of the Noble Eightfold Path. So the short answer is Yes.