Comment to 'Arahattamagga Arahattaphala - The Path to Arahantship'
  • No one can debate or challenge Michael Beloved and win, so  bravo indeed to the intellectual take down of those glossary definitions. However,  glossary definitions are not comparable to the direct experience of the same. For those who take a chance on reading the monk's first hand account of practice and enlightenment, you will gain many finer details that give depth and greater understanding.  Intellectual understanding and mastery of these terms are greatly inferior to direct experience and awareness of the same.

    Actually I intended to NOT share this information here but sent it to Michael directly because of the detailed descriptions  of the citta, it's radiance and of the distinction between the radiant citta and the original.  It seemed to relate to and perhaps contradict things posted recently on this Forum about the Self.  

    I regret the combative deflection of what I thought was helpful and welcomed, even if  not regarded as truth or absolute.

    Oh well.  There may be someone on this Forum who needs this information and so it ended up here anyway.

     

     

    • I will support that the literature delves into and describes states of citta. This is useful in itself and is an assist to anyone who does meditation irrespective of being Buddhist or not.

      It does not matter the system, as Marcia Beloved stresses, it is the experience of these seasoned meditators that gives us insight into higher states.