Like Space, Free and Unobstructed
Thusness:
Whether it is expressed as “exist conventionally but ultimately empty” or “appear but are empty” is simply a matter of flavour.
Whether it is expressed as “exist conventionally but ultimately empty” or “appear but are empty” is simply a matter of flavour.
What is important is the taste of seeing conventional
things as empty till one’s entire body-mind is pervaded with emptiness - like
space, free and unobstructed.
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"One should not underestimate art of letting go ...even aeons of lifetimes may still not enough to understand breatdh and depth of letting go ... "
Once you realise the nature of dharma (at least to the point of stage 5~6 as in http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/thusnesss-six-stages-of-experience.html ), if you have not eliminated all fetters, you are guaranteed to attain full liberation in no more than 7 lifetimes.
A stream entrant has at most 7 more lifetimes in samsara and assured to only be reborn in the higher realms of human or devas in the next life. A once returner can only return once more. A non returner can only return once more in the brahma realms. An arahant has attained nirvana and no longer returns to samsara.
See http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2014/05/early-buddhism-model-of-awakening.html
The Buddha taught the four noble truths to his first five disciples, who then attained stream entry right then. On his second discourse, Anatta Lakkhaṇa Sutta which was delivered on the fifth day of the following fortnight after the teaching of the First Discourse, all five of them attained arahantship on the spot.