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The Noble Eightfold Path has been described as containing two strands;
2: Is to cultivate the Jhana in the teaching.
The common Buddhists do not often study the supra-mundane at all whereas those who cultivate mind and body on a deeper meditative level of wisdom will often come across the teaching of Supra-mundane.
Supramundane Jhāna
The climax in the development of insight is the attainment of the four supramundane paths and fruits. Each path is a momentary peak experience directly apprehending Nibbāna and permanently cutting off certain defilements. These defilements are generally grouped into a set of ten „fetters“ (samyojana) which keep beings chained to the round of rebirths. The first path, called the path of stream-entry (sotāpatti) because it marks the entry into the stream of the Dhamma, eradicates the first three fetters - the false view of self, doubt, and clinging to rites and rituals. The disciple who has reached stream - entry has limited his future births to a maximum of seven in the happy realms of the human and heavenly worlds, after which he will attain final deliverance. But an ardent disciple may progress to still higher stages in the same life in which he reaches stream-entry, by making an aspiration for the next higher path and again undertaking the development of insight with the aim of reaching that path.
Link to info is here. JHĀNA AND THE SUPRAMUNDANE
- Mundane Noble Eightfold Path
- Supra-mundane Noble Eightfold Path
2: Is to cultivate the Jhana in the teaching.
The common Buddhists do not often study the supra-mundane at all whereas those who cultivate mind and body on a deeper meditative level of wisdom will often come across the teaching of Supra-mundane.
Supramundane Jhāna
The climax in the development of insight is the attainment of the four supramundane paths and fruits. Each path is a momentary peak experience directly apprehending Nibbāna and permanently cutting off certain defilements. These defilements are generally grouped into a set of ten „fetters“ (samyojana) which keep beings chained to the round of rebirths. The first path, called the path of stream-entry (sotāpatti) because it marks the entry into the stream of the Dhamma, eradicates the first three fetters - the false view of self, doubt, and clinging to rites and rituals. The disciple who has reached stream - entry has limited his future births to a maximum of seven in the happy realms of the human and heavenly worlds, after which he will attain final deliverance. But an ardent disciple may progress to still higher stages in the same life in which he reaches stream-entry, by making an aspiration for the next higher path and again undertaking the development of insight with the aim of reaching that path.
Link to info is here. JHĀNA AND THE SUPRAMUNDANE