HI John,
What I don't understand is what insight does an enlightened one have that one is SE doesn't have.
I think in September 2013 the scholar-practitioner monk, Bhikkhu Bodhi, explained that one who is fully enlightened is compared to seeing the full moon, whereas one who has merely "entered the stream" is compared to seeing just the quarter moon. If I remember correctly, the behavior changes reflect one who is always aware of dependent origination and impermance, but one who has lately and just briefly become directly aware of causality and one of the three characteristic (anatta, anicca and/or dukkha) that person (the so-called stream-enterer)has not absorbed deeply enough the direct experience to remember it all the time (dependent origination, a characteristic) nor behave accordingly. I am just recounting what I've heard. I may also have made a mistake here with my imperfect memory.
Some have mentioned about reading others' minds and having no rebirth afterwards but for magic, I don't believe in it
and it seems to be dogma and same with rebirth. I've tried reading about it but it goes deep into dogma, same like
the idea of recalling your previous lives.
There is training and philosophy in Buddhism; if you see something as baseless dogma, then you can ignore that or if those apples (rebirth and siddhis) spoil the whole cart for you there are many more world philosophies and religions to turn to and you could also create your own.
For myself, I do cherry-pick around Buddhism to avoid some of its political stuff, like the genital-based discrimination-- that discrimination I try to avoid and leave alone or to support equanimity towards the genders/genitals, for example. As for siddhis and rebirth, yes, one can ignore that, too, and just adhere to a training technique and see how it goes; for some people over time, their experience of those two events changes, for some not.
I use the inhale-and-exhale-breathing training method, anapanasati.
Bye for now.
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EDIT: about practice:
+1 Eric:
What does "believe" have to do with anything? I don't believe I have next-door neighbors out of blind faith. I know I have neighbors because I see them and interact with them.