Friends:
Mental Purification comes
in Seven Stages!
1: Mental Purification by Morality.
2: Mental
Purification by Meditation.
3: Mental Purification via Right View.
4: Mental
Purification by overcoming Doubt.
5: Purification by Knowledge & Vision of what is Path & non-Path.
6: Purification by
Knowledge & Vision of the Noble 8-fold Way.
7: Purification by Directly Experienced Knowledge and Vision.
6-WORD EXACT
Avoiding all Harm;
Doing only Good;
Purifying the Mind;
This do all Buddhas teach!
Dhammapada 183
More on Mental
Purification (Visuddhi):
Mental_Purity,
Levels of Leaving Behind,
The_purpose_of_purification,
Ability_Purification,
The_8_Understandings,
Immaculate_Integrity.
Sources: The moderate speech on the relay wagons MN24:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn024.html
The Seven Stages
of Purification and the Insight Knowledges:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404506
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day!
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Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita
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