Hello. I don't have anyone near to talk about this, so I decided to make a post here. I practice the Dhamma-Vinaya, or try my best to do that, with good results. 

I'm not a teacher, and in my opinion personal experiences can be deceving if taken to be an objective truth, as in this will also work for you, but feel free to ask me anything, I will try to respond with the best of my ability. Keep in mind, take it with a grain of salt.
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Also, yes, I like frogs (bheka means frog in Pali).

Hi Saavaka. I too like frogs. Are you a monk or lay person? Be prepared to go into exhaustive detail on your meditation practice, and the phenomonology associated with it.  

I'll start! What makes you believe you are a sotapanna?

Definition: acquired Right View, lower 3 fetters gone.

How do you know: confirmation with the definition, also radical changes in perspective that don't go away.

Was there a defining moment: I recall two.

How was it like: the first was an aha moment, the other I think the perception of reality did a click, on-off.

What is it like: you know what you need to do in order to achieve liberation. For example, right now my biggest problem is complacency.

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Lay person. My practice is simple, I follow the gradual training as portrayed in MN 107. What works for me now is sense restraint, coupled with yoniso manasikara. I don't sit very much, this is the problem of complacency I was talking about.

​​​​​​​Formal meditation I do is basically sit and do nothing, while applying yoniso manasikara. Sometimes I enter the first jhana, sometimes not, I must work on that.

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Replied that in other post, but for the sake of completion, aquired Right View, lower 3 fetters gone.

Welcome !! Nice to meet you. Gad you're here

I'm unfamiliar with the term yoniso manasikara, but I looked it up. Would it be equivalent to open awareness? I would also call it "just knowing", or rigpa.

I'm not familiar with tibetan practices, maybe is the same, maybe not. 
What I do is broaden the perspective of the attention to make known of what is giving sustent to an experience to happen, while simultaneously cognizing the experience. Pain requires a body, for example. Yoniso manasikara could be translated as attention to the womb of experience. The Buddha said this is what develops Right View, in MN 2 I think.

Are you studying within a distinct school under the tutelage of a teacher? I'm unfamiliar with the descriptors you are using and would like to find a commonality to our dharma language to facilitate understanding. 

No distinct school or teacher, just what is in the suttas. The interpretation of yoniso manasikara I use was made known to me by monks of Hillside Hermitage, although is the literal translation of the term from pali to english.

Thanks. I've read the middle discourses, but not until a year or two ago. I didn't understand the teachings until well into my path. It seems it would be tricky to develop a practice from personal interpretation of the suttas alone. 

Yes, definetly. This is what I'm doing now, not what I did before sotapatti, trying different methods and the likes. Regardless, Right View was acquired by sense restraint and yoniso manasikara, which is now mostly my practice.
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Tell us about the third fetter, attachment to rites and rituals.  What was your inspiration to post here and make a declaration about your attainment?

There is no step by step method to achieve liberation, only causes and conditions, and actions that leads to those causes and conditions and other actions that don't.

As to why, I have no friends in Dhamma to talk about this, and I wanted to share my experience whith the practices I do, as I think they are conducive to awakening as it is displayed in the suttas. Why claim the attainment, idk, there is a board for that, so why not.

​​​​​​​Also I was a little bored. 

Where are you located? I'm in Vermont, US.

Argentina.

Welcome to the forum. I look forward to reading your posts.

Ok, what is your experience with the practices you do?


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Welcome! I'm always happy to see new members.

I've benefitted tremendously from keeping a practice log on here, so I invite you to do the same, if you feel like it. There's a scarcity of first-hand, detailed accounts of awakening; you'd be doing humanity a service by keeping some records. 


Do you have any solutions to this in mind?  

I didn't achieve liberation, only Right View, for the moment. Why is not a step by step method is because you can't control progress, only cause it, and is very personal. The on-off click happened to me while I was coming home from work while talking to my girlfriend, for example. At least we where in a bus, so there was no danger.<br /><br />My experience is achieving sotapanna, and for now the 1st jhana, all in concordance with the suttas. Yoniso manasikara is what is translated as wise attention, but the naive translation as attention to the womb had made this happen. As I posted somewhere up, the broaden of attention to give perspective on the context of experience is truly a wonderful and effective practice.<br /><br />​​​​

Yes, endure it and keep going, as better things are in the path. The Buddha speaked about lazyness and complacency for sotapannas, sakadagamis and anagamis in the suttas, I didn't know that was possible until it happened to me. 
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Ah very nice, I like that perspective. 

Yeah, just endure and keep going. One can regress progress if one doesn't keep doing the work. The mind is difficult to tame, but it can be possible, with patience and persistance.
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When you say you achieved right view, what do you mean? Could you give your personal description of "right view", in your own words not quoting the suttas? When you say you achieved 1st Jhana after stream entry, I don't understand this.  In my experience it is not necessary to be a stream enterer to work with the jhanas and after streamentry all the jhanas are available. 

Right View == Sotapatti.
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It's like the allegory of the cave, you clearly know and see that the self view is constructed, and that you can stop what causes this concoction. Also one understands the suttas in a gut feeling way, which is nice.

The jhanas, as they are portrayed in the suttas, are the culmination of the eightfold path, and one's first taste of liberation. The sutta's jhanas can only happen when one has the right conditions, developed with Right View as a basis. Truly, any modern version of jhana just pales in comparison. This is why my mind resort to complacency, it really feels that something better just cannot be possible.

The bliss/piti of first jhana is very pleasant but unsatisfying, letting go of the bliss will naturally lead you to the 2nd, and spontaneously dispel your complancency. I disagree that there is a "modern version of jhana" there is only depth of absorption, and the depth doesn't matter if the jhana, is seen through. Depth does not ultimately matter. It's only mind. Depth is thought, as is this discussion. None of it leads to awakening, as the mind is not awakened, you and I are not awakened, we have nothing to do with it. Awakening is an accident that might occur along the path, like tripping on a stone.

The "right view" of a Sotapanna is at best "all right-ish view".  

Welcome to the DhO! 
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That jhana is an absoprtion is the modern take. I had practiced the modern take of the jhanas, they are not the same.

​​​​​​​As to the right-ish view, I agree, I cannot teach others or have all the answers. That is why I said take everything I post with a pinch of salt.

Awesome! Agree to disagree. Take care, and welcome.