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The Mind Like Fire Unbound
Chapter IV
… With the ending of the effluents, he remains in the effluentless release of awareness & release of discernment, having directly known and realized them for himself right in the here-&-now.’ AN 3:88 As the text makes clear, stream-winners and once-returners are those who have fully developed virtue, non-returners are those who have fully developed virtue & concentration, and arahants are those …-
The Mind Like Fire Unbound
Abstract
… only the drawbacks of these four objects of clinging, but, more importantly, the drawbacks of the act of passion & desire itself. The mind does this by following a threefold training: virtue, concentration, & discernment. Virtue provides the joy & freedom from remorse that are essential for concentration. Concentration provides an internal basis of pleasure, rapture, equanimity, & singleness of mind that are not dependent on sensual objects …
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The Mind Like Fire Unbound
Introduction
… Chapter III takes up the notion of clinging as it applies to the mind—as sensuality, views, habits & practices, and doctrines of the self—to show in detail what is loosened in the mind’s unbinding, whereas Chapter IV shows how, by detailing the way in which the practice of virtue, concentration, & discernment frees the mind from its fetters. This final chapter culminates in …
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The Mind Like Fire Unbound
Chapter III
… What is his future destination, what is his future course?’ [The Buddha at first declines to answer, but on being pressed, finally responds:] ‘There is the case where a person develops the dog-practice fully & perfectly.… Having developed the dog-practice fully & perfectly, having developed a dog’s virtue fully & perfectly, having developed a dog’s mind fully & perfectly, having developed a dog’s …
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