4 Levels of Awakening:
- stream entry: 7 or less rebirths.
- once-returner: once more as a human.
- non-returner: once more in a heavenly realm.
- arahant: no more rebirth.
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2 Factors of Stream-Entry:
- appropriate attention.
- friendship with admirable people.
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7 Factors of Awakening:
- mindfulness.
- investigation/analysis of mental qualities.
- energy = determination = persistence.
- joy = rapture.
- tranquility = serenity.
- concentration = clear awareness.
- equanimity.
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Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhāna) as a Skillful Conditioning:
- mindful = memory = sati.
- alert = heedful = sensitive.
- ardent.
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5 Aggregates:
- body = form.
- sensations = feelings .
- perceptions.
- fabrications = formations: bodily, verbal, mental.
- consciousness = mind.
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5 Hindrances (to be starved by appropriate attention):
- sensory desires.
- ill will.
- sloth or torpor.
- restlessness.
- doubt.
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12 Links in Dependent Co-Arising:
- ignorance.
- fabrications = formations.
- rebirth consciousness.
- name & form.
- six sense bases.
- contact.
- feeling.
- craving.
- clinging.
- becoming.
- birth.
- aging & death.
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Experience at Any Moment:
- results of past karmas.
- present intention/attitude.
- immediate result of the present intention/attitude.
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4 Nutriments:
- edible food.
- sense-impressions.
- volitions.
- consciousness.
