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Friends:
What are The
4 Tools for Stream Entrance?
Once in
Savatthi the Blessed
Buddha
said this:
Sariputta : A tool for
Stream-Entry, a tool for
Stream-Entry! What,
Sariputta, is a tool for
Stream-Entry?
1:
Association with superior persons is a tool for Stream-Entry.
2:
Hearing the true Dhamma is a tool for Stream-Entry.
3:
Careful and rational attention is a tool for Stream-Entry.
4:
Praxis according with the Dhamma is a tool for Stream-Entry.
Good, good, Sariputta! These 4 are the tools for Stream-Entry!
Sariputta, The stream, the stream. What is the stream?
This
Noble 8-fold Way, Venerable Sir, is the stream; that is
Good, good,
Sariputta! This
Noble
8-fold Way is verily the stream.
Sariputta : A Stream-Enterer! What is a
Stream-Enterer?
One who possesses this
Noble 8-fold
Way, Venerable Sir.
Good, good, Sariputta! One who possesses this
Noble 8-fold Way is a Stream-Enterer : this Venerable One of such a
name & family.
Source
(edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:347-8]
section 55: Sotāpattisamyutta. Thread 5: Sāriputta...
Notes: The
Stream Winner!
A Stream-Enterer (Sotāpanna) has a maximum of 7 lives left before his
Enlightenment! He/she cannot be reborn in hell, as ghost, animal, or as
angry demon, & is thus safe from downfall!
Further details see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapanna.htm
See also:
The 4 factors of Stream-Entry
More on
becoming grounded and assured by Entering the Stream:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Stream-Enterer.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stream_Entrance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Links_to_Stream_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/ariya_puggala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Entering_the_Stream_Supreme.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm
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