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the 'Immediacy', is a name for that
concentration of mind which is associated with such insight (vipassanā) as is present in any one of the 4 kinds of supermundane path consciousness
(s. ariya-puggala), and which therefore is the cause of the immediately
following consciousness as its result or 'fruition' (phala).
According to the Abhidhamma, the path (of the
Sotāpanna, etc.) is
generated by the insight into the impermanence, misery and impersonality of
existence, flashing up at that very moment and transforming and ennobling one's
nature forever.
It is mentioned under the name of Ānantarika-samādhi
in the Ratana Sutta (Sn.v.22) and in Pts.M.1, Ñānakathā.

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