The 4 Modes of Direct
Experience:
The Exalted Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these 4 realizable states:
What four?
By the body one realizes the
8 releasing liberations.
By
the memory one realizes one's
prior lives in all diverse detail.
By the divine eye one realizes
the death
& rebirth of beings.
By understanding one realizes the elimination
of the
mental fermentations.
These, Bhikkhus, are the 4 realizable States...
The next
Buddha Metteyya depicted above will -just as I say now-
many times explain:
“You can come as you like, but
you pay as you go!”
More on Direct Experience:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Direct_Experience.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Escape.htm
Source: The Numerical Sayings of the
Buddha. Anguttara Nikāya II 182
http://store.pariyatti.org/Numerical-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_4240.html
http://store.pariyatti.org/Numerical-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_4240.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/an/index.html
