The 4 stepping stones to entering the
Stream Supreme!
Once in
Savatthi the Blessed
Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, there are these four
factors of Stream-Entry. What four?
1:
Association with excellent persons, is a stepping-stone
for Stream-Entry.
2: Hearing the true Dhamma is a stepping-stone for
this
Stream-Entry.
3: Careful and rational attention is a stepping-stone for
Stream-Entry.
4: Praxis
in agreement with
the Dhamma is a stepping-stone for
Stream-Entry.
These
4 factors
of Stream-Entry does any Noble Disciple possess!
OBS: The Stream Winner!
A Stream-Enterer (Sotāpanna)
has maximum 7 lives left before Enlightenment!
He/she cannot be reborn in hell, as a ghost, as an animal,
nor as an angry demon,
and is thereby safe from the danger of kammic
downfall..
Further details see:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Entering_the_Stream_Supreme.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapanna.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Stream_Entrance.htm
More on
gaining a surely safe
future:
Stream-Entry:
(Sotāpati-magga):
Entering the Stream Supreme,
Fine_Faith,
Sangha_Entry,
The_6_Keys,
Going_Upwards,
Helpers_to_Stream_Entry,
No_Fear!
Source
(edited extract):
The
Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta
Nikāya. [V:343-4]
section 55: Sotāpattisamyutta.
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