Friends:s
Entering the Stream
Supreme assures Enlightenment in 7 lives!
Once in
Savatthi the Blessed
Buddha said this:
When,
householders, the Noble Disciple possesses these seven good qualities:
Not
Killing...!
Not Stealing...!
Not Abusing...!
Not
Deceiving...!
Not Splitting...!
Not Scolding...!
Not Gossiping...!
and
the
Noble Disciple moreover is established in these
four desirable states:
Unwavering faith and confirmed confidence in the
Buddha,
Dhamma and Sangha
and the
Morality
esteemed by the Noble ones: Unbroken, untorn, unspotted,
unmottled, freeing, praised by the clever, natural, leading to concentration,
then if he wishes he can announce of himself: I am one finished with Hell,
finished with the animal realm, finished with the domain of
ghosts, finished
with the planes of misery, finished with all bad destinations & lower worlds.
I am a
Stream-Enterer,
no longer bound to the lower
worlds, fixed in destiny,
with Enlightenment as my assured future destination...
When this was said,
then the householders of the Bamboo
Gate village exclaimed:
Magnificent,
Master Gotama!... Marvellous,
Master Gotama!... We
hereby take
refuge in the
Master Gotama, his Dhamma, & in the Bhikkhu Sangha.
From today
let the Blessed One know us as lay followers who have gone for
refuge for life!
Source
(edited extract):
The
Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta
Nikāya. [V:356]
section 55:
Sotāpattisamyutta.
Thread 7: To the people at the Bamboo gate...
More on gaining the
ultimate safe future: The Noble Stream-Entry:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fine_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Stream-Enterer.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stream_Entrance.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Links_to_Stream_Entry.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/ariya_puggala.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Entering_the_Stream_Supreme.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Killing.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Stealing.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Abusing.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Deceiving.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Splitting.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Scolding.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Gossiping.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Three_Jewels.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm
Entering the Stream Supreme!
