- Printed the Chinese version of Arahattamagga for my mother, and told her to practice chanting with the pointers in it. (Chinese version: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Arahattamagga_-_Arahattaphala-chinese.pdf )Although I may not agree with his definition of "Arahantship", it is still a nice book describing the journey into I AM and then later the collapse of the Witness into nondual awareness (but not anatta).While flipping through, I found a good description of the I AM realization with its doubtlessness by Ajahn Maha Boowa:English Version:"This is the path for those who are practicing meditation so as to penetrate to the truth of the five khandhas, using painful feel-ing as the primary focus. This practice formed the initial basis formy fearlessness in meditation. I saw with unequivocal clarity that the essential knowing nature of the citta could never possibly be annihilated. Even if everything else were completely destroyed, the citta would remain wholly unaffected. I realized this truth with absolute clarity the moment when the citta’s knowing es-sence stood alone on its own, completely uninvolved with any-thing whatsoever. There was only that knowing presence stand-ing out prominently, awesome in its splendor. The citta lets go of the body, feeling, memory, thought and consciousness and enters a pure stillness of its very own, with absolutely no connection to the khandhas. In that moment, the five khandhas do not function in any way at all in relation to the citta. In other words, the citta and the khandhas exist independently because they have been completely cut off from one another due to the persistent efforts of meditation.That attainment brings a sense of wonder and amazement that no experience we’ve ever had could possibly equal. Thecitta stays suspended in a serene stillness for a long time before withdrawing to normal consciousness. Having withdrawn, it re-connects with the khandhas as before, but it remains absolutelyVenerable Ãcariya Mahã Boowa32convinced that the citta has just attained a state of extraordinary calm totally cut off from the five khandhas. It knows that it has experienced an extremely amazing spiritual state of being. That certainty will never be erased.Due to that unshakable conviction, which became fixed in my heart as a result of that experience and therefore could not be brought into doubt by unfounded or unreasonable assertions, I resumed my earlier samãdhi meditation in earnest—this time with an added determination and a sense of absorption stem-ming from the magnetic pull that this certainty has in the heart. The citta was quick to converge into the calm and concentration of samãdhi as before. Although I could not yet release the citta completely from the infiltration of the five khandhas, I was greatly inspired to make a persistent effort to reach the higher levels of Dhamma."
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