Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
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Re: Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
My understanding is that there are still those other fetters to break, so not everything has been learnt. But on the other hand, their progress is irrevocable, and they are destined for the final goal. Perhaps the speed of their progress, and how happy they remain in this life, is determined by how much Dhamma they learn in this life.
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To quote Ajahn Chah:
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.”
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u still need to break other fetters
I may be slow learner but im at least learning...
Re: Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
Agree.
My question is whether you still have to read the Sutta and follow the Noble Eightfold Path.
Consider a case a person dies as a Sotapanna.
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if someone become sotapanna, he must have arrived by seeing 5 aggregates as non self and impermanent suffering and removing self view... similarly using same seeing of.5 aggregates as non self, Annica dukka he removed other fetters like anger or lust etc
if a person dies sotapanna he reborn in heaven and can be taught by gods or monk who can teach gods or someone who can remember himself...
I may be slow learner but im at least learning...
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Re: Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
Sotapannas have "entered the stream", and have presumably internalised enough Dhamma to be self-sustaining on the path.
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It seems sotapanna still have unfinish tasks to be continued until arhant .
[Ven. MahaKotthita:] "Then which things should a monk who has attained stream-entry attend to in an appropriate way?"
[Ven. Sariputta:] "A monk who has attained stream-entry should attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self. For it is possible that a monk who has attained stream-entry, attending in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant... not-self, would realize the fruit of once-returning."
[Ven. MahaKotthita:] "Then which things should a monk who has attained once-returning attend to in an appropriate way?"
[Ven. Sariputta:] "A monk who has attained once-returning should attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self. For it is possible that a monk who has attained once-returning, attending in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant... not-self, would realize the fruit of non-returning."
[Ven. MahaKotthita:] "Then which things should a monk who has attained non-returning attend to in an appropriate way?"
[Ven. Sariputta:] "A monk who has attained non-returning should attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self. For it is possible that a monk who has attained non-returning, attending in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant... not-self, would realize the fruit of arahantship."
[Ven. MahaKotthita:] "Then which things should an arahant attend to in an appropriate way?"
[Ven. Sariputta:] "An arahant should attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self. Although, for an arahant, there is nothing further to do, and nothing to add to what has been done, still these things — when developed & pursued — lead both to a pleasant abiding in the here-&-now and to mindfulness & alertness."
— SN 22.122
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Re: Once you become a Sotapanna, do you still have to learn Dhamma?
Agree.
But you already know this when you become a Sotapanna.
So you don't have to learn it again.
But you already know this when you become a Sotapanna.
So you don't have to learn it again.
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If you are Non-Returner, I imagine you still have to learn Dhamma.
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A diligent person would want to learn more . Sotapanna may not be proficient in samadhi and dhamma knowledge .
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I think as long as I am a Sekha, I will still do Pariyatti.
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The suttas say you become an Arahant by hearing the dhamma, which makes me think that you need to keep hearing (/studying) dhamma all the way to the end.
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Once you become a Sotapanna you are independent of the need of a tea her, although they sure do make things easier... if they're more advanced of course.
But of course you do, you are not an Arahant yet, so there is more to learn (more to let go of actually is a better descriptions here).
A lazy Sotapanna can fall over multiple times, but the fact is they will get there e eventually, but the work is not done for them, everything none Dhamma just starts to become less and less attractive. The lazier you become, the harder life gets, so why would you not apply yourself?
I heard a monk once say be careful what you wish for...he meant, if you wish to become a stream enterer dont be surprised if life becomes a struggle if you try to just laze your way through it
But of course you do, you are not an Arahant yet, so there is more to learn (more to let go of actually is a better descriptions here).
A lazy Sotapanna can fall over multiple times, but the fact is they will get there e eventually, but the work is not done for them, everything none Dhamma just starts to become less and less attractive. The lazier you become, the harder life gets, so why would you not apply yourself?
I heard a monk once say be careful what you wish for...he meant, if you wish to become a stream enterer dont be surprised if life becomes a struggle if you try to just laze your way through it
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I wonder though about the difference between hearing the Dhamma, and internalising/realising this knowledge. If you get the basic principles of something, if you really feel it, then the rest flows naturally with experience.Dhamma Chameleon wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:10 pm The suttas say you become an Arahant by hearing the dhamma, which makes me think that you need to keep hearing (/studying) dhamma all the way to the end.
To use a trivial comparison, I remember learning the basics of sailing on a course. Having done the course and learned the basic skills, I became an independent learner. I still had a lot to learn, but I knew how to develop the skill, and who to ask.
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