Monday, July 22, 2013

Stream Winners

http://www.liberty.edu/templates/clubsports/images/news_main/lr12_079.jpgOn PAGE TWENTY-TWO, Sayadaw kinda repeats page 12, and mentions 89 types of consciousness and 52 types of associated mental factors, the objects of insight meditation being 81 of those types, and the result the remaining 8 'supramundane consciousnesses.' 

Here is a taste of those from 'The Abhidhamma in Practice'  (which by the way is a quick summary of the same material in Sayadaw's book) at Access to Insight:


Lokuttara cittas

The word lokuttara is derived from loka and uttara. In this context loka refers to the five aggregates; uttara means beyond. Thus lokuttara applies to those states of consciousness that transcend the world of mind and body, i.e., they are supra-mundane.
These states of supra-mundane consciousness are possessed by those who have developed insight into the three aspects of existence — impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and no-self. As a result of this insight, such a person passes beyond the level of a worldling (puthujjana) and becomes a Noble One (ariya puggala). With this transformation there is a radical change in the person's life and nature because a determinate number of defilements are totally eradicated, never to arise again. These defilements go to form the ten fetters (sa.myojanaa) that bind a person down to the wheel of existence. They are eradicated in stages as one becomes, in succession, a stream-winner (sotaapanna), once-returner (sakadaagaamii), non-returner (anaagaami) and arahant.

No comments:

Post a Comment