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Stream entry is purportedly followed by three subsequent stages of awakening: Sakadāgāmi (once-returner), Anāgāmi (non-returner), and Arahant (fully liberated). The word sotāpanna literally means "one who entered ( āpanna ) the stream ( sota ); stream-enterer", after a metaphor which calls the noble eightfold path a stream which leads to ...
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Pubs. ISBN 0-86171-331-1. Buddhaghosa (1999). The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga. Translated by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli. Seattle: BPS Pariyatti Editions. ISBN 1-928706-00-2. Gethin, R. (2001). The Buddhist Path to Awakening. Oneworld Publications.
In time, the Buddha's awakening came to be understood as an immediate full awakening and liberation, instead of the insight into and certainty about the way to follow to reach enlightenment. In some Zen traditions, however, this perfection came to be relativized again; according to one contemporary Zen master, "Shakyamuni buddha and Bodhidharma ...
The first path and fruit; The second path and fruit; The third path and fruit; The fourth path and fruit; The "Purification by Knowledge and Vision" is the culmination of the practice, in four stages leading to liberation. The emphasis in this system is on understanding the three marks of existence, dukkha, anatta, anicca.
Since the ultimate end of suffering is nirvana, bodhicitta necessarily involves a motivation to help others to awaken (to find bodhi). [15] Gandharan relief depicting the ascetic Megha (Shakyamuni in a past life) prostrating before the past Buddha Dīpaṅkara and vowing to become a Buddha, c. 2nd century CE (Gandhara, Swat Valley)
In Buddhist terminology this all-decisive moment is known as the Awakening of the Buddha-Mind, or Bodaishin [...] There are three practically synonymous terms in the Mahayana for this: Bodaishin (Sanskrit: Bodhicitta); Busshin, literally 'Buddha-Heart' of Great Compassion (Sanskrit: Tathagatagarbha, or the latent possibility of Buddhahood ...
In the Pali Canon's Bhāvanānuyutta sutta ("Mental Development Discourse," [note 1] AN 7.67), the Buddha is recorded as saying: . Monks, although a monk who does not apply himself to the meditative development of his mind [bhavana [note 1]] may wish, "Oh, that my mind might be free from the taints by non-clinging!", yet his mind will not be freed.
A Buddha must sit under a buddha tree (like the bodhi tree) on a bodhimanda (place of awakening) A Buddha must defeat the demonic forces of Mara. A Buddha must attain and manifest full awakening. A Buddha must give his first sermon, and thus turn the wheel of the Dharma. A Buddha must die and pass into Nirvana, demonstrating liberation and ...