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(
sīlabbata-parāmasa
). These defilements would never rise again in the
Bodhisatta’s mind continuum.
Doubt or wavering (
vicikicchā
) of mind about: 1) the Buddha; 2) the
Dhamma; 3) the Saṅgha; 4) the training rules (
sikkha
); 5) the past; 6) the
future; 7) both past and future, and 8) dependent origination
(
paṭiccasamuppāda
). Adherence to practices and vows (
sīlabbata-
paramāsa
); the misleading belief that there are paths, other than the Noble
Eightfold Path, that can liberate one from suffering (
dukkha
).
The Awakening
After realizing Stream-entry and fruition, the Bodhisatta, reviewed 1) The
Stream-entry path (
Sotāpatti-magga
); 2) the Stream-entry fruition (
Sotāpatti-
phala
) which was the result of the path; 3) Nibbāna which was their object; 4)
the defilements destroyed by means of the Stream-entry path; and 5) the
defilements not destroyed yet by means of the said path. This fivefold reflective
knowledge is known as the fivefold reflection-knowledge (
paccavekkhaṇa-
ñāṇa
).
Having thus reviewed the fivefold reflective knowledge, the Bodhisatta again
cultivated and developed the series of insight knowledges (
vipassanā-ñāṇa
),
such as the knowledge of rise and fall (
udayabbaya-ñāṇa
), and so on. Soon he
realized the second stage of the Once-returning path (
Sakadāgāmi-magga
) and
the Once-returning fruition (
Sakadāgāmi-phala
). By the Once-returning path he
uprooted the grosser defilements, namely, sense-desires (
kāma-rāga
) and ill-will
(
vyāpāda
). Henceforth, the mind continuum of the Bodhisatta had become
completely rid of the latent elements of the grosser defilements of sense-desires
and ill-will, the way seeds are burnt up in fire.
Having realized the Once-returning path and fruition, the Bodhisatta, with the
occurrence in him of impulsive thought moments (
javana-vāra
) of the fivefold
reflective knowledge (
paccavekkhaṇa-ñāṇa
), contemplated the Non-returning
path (
Anāgāmi-magga
), and the Non-returning fruition (
Anāgāmi-phala
), their
object, Nibbāna, the defilements so far already destroyed and the remaining
defilements. Again he developed the series of insight-knowledges (
vipassanā-
ñāṇa
), such as the knowledge of rise and fall (
udayabbaya-ñāṇa
), and so on.
Soon he realized the third stage of the Non-returning path and the Non-
returning fruition.