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Thanks everyone, this has all been very helpful. I have one more related question. In Daniel Ingram's interview on Buddhist Geeks, the transcript (http://bit.ly/XhjkI) says:
"until you can see the space and your entire body arising and vanishing and thus you know synchronize that with the sense of strobbing attention and get stream entry"
I know that 1) this is a rough transcript, 2) he was speaking quickly, informally, and off-the-cuff, but this is one of the things that led to my original question.
Not to put words in people's mouths or to try too hard to interpret something I simply don't have access to yet, but, to me, this reads as 1) have enough concentration and insight to note whatever is in a particular moment, 2) if everything in that particular moment vanishes at the same time and you manage to catch it happening, then 3) stream-entry necessarily follows.
So, if I become excellent at seeing gross objects vibrate, and only gross objects are present in a particular moment, and I manage to catch the vanishing of that moment, then stream-entry will follow? It seems like I would want to be able to work with subtle objects, because, if I don't, and subtle objects happen to be present in a particular moment, then that moment couldn't be a gateway to stream-entry for me.
Sorry if this is being nit-picky. I'm just trying to work out the contradictions in my mental model, though my time might be served better by just meditating.
Thanks again, everyone. |