arhat path

Question 1

Harvey: ‘transcendent….

Answer 1

, timeless experience which destroys attachment, hatred and delusion’

Question 2

4 stages in arhat path

Answer 2

• the stream enterer (entering the stream which leads to the ocean of nirvana)
• the once returner (being reborn only once more as a human being)
• the non returner (being reborn in a pure, heavenly abode)
• the arhat (removing all 10 fetters and becoming ‘the perfect one’

Question 3

Buddha: ‘like a sharpened…

Answer 3

knife that can cut easily through a solid object, the concentrated mind is able to see things as they really are’