Materials from confirmed Arhats?

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Re: Materials from confirmed Arhats?

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Stop seeking! This is it.
"Watch your heart, observe. Be the observer, be the knower, not the condition" Ajahn Sumedho volume5 - The Wheel Of Truth
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DC2R wrote:There are good teachers, but none will be "confirmed arahants". That is something you can judge by the quality of their teachings and their dedication to the practice. They might be true arahants; they might not.

I think its also important to make the effort to find and arrange to talk to teachers face-to-face in "meat space," rather than just talking endlessly on the internet, reading books and listening to audios. Its always possible to make arrangements to do that, even if one has a busy life & other commitments.

One way or another,there's something very different about an actual meeting between a teacher & student.

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cappuccino wrote:Read the suttas, Buddha should be your teacher.
"Bhikkhus, when a noble follower who has heard (the truth) sees thus, he finds estrangement in the eye, finds estrangement in forms, finds estrangement in eye-consciousness, finds estrangement in eye-contact, and whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful- nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its indispensable condition, in that too he finds estrangement.

"He finds estrangement in the ear... in sounds...

"He finds estrangement in the nose... in odors...

"He finds estrangement in the tongue... in flavors...

"He finds estrangement in the body... in tangibles...

"He finds estrangement in the mind, finds estrangement in ideas, finds estrangement in mind-consciousness, finds estrangement in mind-contact, and whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with mind-contact for its indispensable condition, in that too he finds estrangement.

"When he finds estrangement, passion fades out. With the fading of passion, he is liberated. When liberated, there is knowledge that he is liberated. He understands: 'Birth is exhausted, the holy life has been lived out, what can be done is done, of this there is no more beyond.'"

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The heart, of course, & the heart alone
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Stop seeking! This is it.
This is Samsara, right?
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