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05/09/2026

If you can understand that it’s meaningless and unwise to suffer with suffering, which is a common way (what is common or putagjano, and that’s also an ignoble way or anariyo), as suffering is a part of life anyway, that can help you let go of suffering to enhance the quality of mind and quality of life.
In other words, if you realise that it is the meaninglessness to suffer with suffering events and life experiences based on wisdom or “nissarana”, you may train to let go of delusions about self-view, social practices (including rituals and mere precepts, or acts), while letting go of delusion for the world as it arises from sensory information.

People are born into places; most thoughts are automatic. Are you willing to train the automatic thinking process (and conscious thoughts) that functions in common or “putaggjano” mode to let go of such mode by applying wisdom to enhance the quality of mind and quality of life? If the answer is yes, you may try to train your mind in the universal noble path to let go of suffering with stability.
To develop the noble path, one has to ask questions and investigate oneself; one may question oneself, as one is the best to understand and guide oneself toward the cessation of suffering.

You may hear and apply the universal training from someone who has walked and completed the stages of nibbana, or from a qualified person, and test the practice to assess its reliability after applying it wholeheartedly.
To discover truths in you, you may question yourself;
Since ups and downs are a natural part of everyone's life, when life's difficulties arise, instead of becoming overly sad, ask yourself, "Why am I becoming sad?" When you reflect on this, you may find two viable answers: you feel sad because you have an underlying expectation that certain things should not happen the way they happen, or because you have strong likes or dislikes regarding certain experiences. Once you find these answers, take a further step to question yourself: "What made me think that sad things shouldn't happen, but in reality, anything can happen in life?" The answer lies in a misguided understanding of life, which leads a person to expect things to unfold exactly as they wish. When distressing events happen, instead of becoming overly distressed, focus on resolving what can be resolved and put more energy into that, rather than consuming energy worrying over such things. In this way, you can lead yourself to discovery by asking yourself questions, reflecting on yourself, and sharpening your wisdom through self-questioning.
First thing first, you have to be honest with yourself. For example, you may try to answer the following sample questions to let go of delusion by applying wisdom:
1. Do I truly value freedom from suffering through the greatest source of energy or universal wisdom (Buddhahood), leading to experience emptiness or nibbana or freedom from suffering, or do I value the world through its sensory information, social practices?
2. Can my mind become free from social constructions, or is it such that my mind can't help but get stuck and restricted by constructions?
3. Is it such that my mind values the world based on sensory information, with an underlying tendency to think such things are ultimate truths?
You may investigate your mind and understand when it has delusion. And let go of delusion by applying wisdom to become free from suffering arising from the mind’s construction and the world you experience through sensory information.

If you let go of delusion through conscious efforts, your mind's suffering decreases. To make it stable, you may engage in letting go of mental fetters through conscious effort while connecting with the emptiness in the mental continuum of those who represent the Triple Gem within. To do that, you may let go of the delusion of the common way of understanding your self to understand the universally applicable Triple Gem. This can be explained as follows;
One of the barriers to developing the noble path is a lack of self-awareness. Sometimes, when it comes to practising Dhamma, certain individuals can get carried away even without them knowing, so they may act, all dressed up and displaying themselves, talking about self (personal stories etc.) and showing to others (i.e intent) that I am a seeker of universal truths or nibbana or "I am a disciple of the Buddha or Dhamma or "I am a follower of Buddha and Dhamma", without necessarily letting go of delusion for the conventional self and other fetters within. Yet when the universe invites you to end the dressing-up events and show at the deathbed, all dresses have to be set aside, but the mental continuum goes on, transitioning in ordinary mode. Thus, you may investigate, understand, and guide your mind to let go of wanting to show off the “self” through Dhamma instead; focus on Dhamma, investigate and talk about universally applicable Dhamma matters without bringing the self into it, as discussed in the previous post.

“...When kusa grass is wrongly grasped, it only cuts the hand. So too, the spiritual practice in life, when wrongly taken, drags you to hell.
Any lax intentional act, any observance done with unwholesome intent (or intent grasping self-view and other fetters), or suspicious spiritual life, is not very fruitful.”
That’s what the godling Tāyana said... “
-Tāyanasutta, Sn 2.8

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26/08/2026

“How many lamps are there
that light up the world?...
-Māgadhasutta, SN 2.4

If a person could truly know how great a source of light the Buddha is for allowing one to abandon suffering and universal laws, they would leave everything and come to the practice.

Not merely believing, not merely accepting or refusing but investigating Dhamma-related matters, one can develop the noble vision.
..the Buddha is the best of blazes:
this is the supreme radiance.”
-Māgadhasutta, SN 2.4

Someone can have suffering in mind (since childhood or at any age) with reason or without reason, and they seek escape through realisation of the dissatisfactory nature of things that are changing in worldly life through sensory information; and they take refuge in the Buddha and the Buddha’s precise version of the universal practice to experience Sotapanna.

"After hearing the discourse given by the Buddha, Visakha, her grandfather and all her five hundred companions attained Sotapatti Fruition."
-Dhp 53

For those who seek universal truths and stable peace, seeking wise questions and answers is very beneficial.
For someone who wants to close the mind to universal truth and is happy with temporary peace merely by taking in beliefs, either accepting or refusing them without self-investigation, not thinking with wisdom, or allocating time available to think with wisdom to focusing attention on the breath, thoughts, or feelings, and alike is beneficial. Knowing the differences, one may choose the suitable training path.

Merely accepting beliefs is suitable for those who hold them by faith alone, without investigation. Faith alone is not sufficient to develop the noble path.
To progress in the universal path, one requires the willingness to investigate by applying wisdom, and that’s because nibbana is not something an ordinary person knows through precision; it is something new for them (new experience), and it requires discovery.
Thus, opening the mind to the truth requires you to investigate your degree of current understanding or faith further, and to examine universally applicable truths. It is through wise investigation (not merely accepting or rejecting based on beliefs) that one can develop into confirmed confidence (a key stepping stone to Stream entry or Sotapanna) based on evidence.

Seeking and discovering truths requires wise questioning, seeking answers, investigation, and a more scientific, evidence-based approach suitable for truth seekers.
Some people may have a natural tendency to be wise; they naturally don’t merely accept or reject things but investigate and accept or reject them based on evidence; for them, the noble path is well-suited.
Certain individuals may lack interest in investigation but are happy to fully embrace beliefs; for them, a closed approach, temporary happiness and peace through meditations, rituals, and conventional lifestyles are suitable.
There are individual variations; depending on each individual's mental state, they may adopt an initial practice, either remain a beginner for many years and sometimes for their lifetime, or make progress and enter the Noble Path.

At the preliminary stage of Dhamma practice or at the foundation level, whether as an ordinary monk, ordinary householder, or a meditator, one often requires, i.e., engaging in wholesome acts (i.e., making offerings or developing gratitude and responsibility for those who have helped and are helping in many ways, including parents, teachers and gradually expand to include everyone (friends, strangers, all beings with no discrimination) into that practice while also considering cause and effect, taking precepts or rules and meditation, meaning reflecting on Dhamma). Thereafter, to make progress, one needs to shape intentions, as discussed in the previous post.

To begin investigation, should you prefer, you may try to answer the following questions:
1. There are people who do not self-declare themselves as experiencing nibbana, but whom other people claim to experience nibbana.
There are people who initially self-declare that they have experienced nibbana, invite others to come and see what they've experienced within, and others come to know about it personally as they test the practice for themselves and experience it within.
Among these two categories of people, which is following the footsteps of the Buddha?

2. There are people who declare nothing related to nibbana but explain practices that are not relevant to the four stages of nibbana.
Others explain the four stages of nibbana, either declaring they are ordinary people or not declaring anything.
Among these two categories of people, which is a closer representation of the Buddha?

3. There are people who declare a practice limited to a certain category of people (not universal), or practices that require mere conscious effort but are neither natural nor practical for all.
Rarely is it someone who declares a universal training path.
Among these two categories of people, which is closer to the representation of the Buddha?

4. Some people declare practices for nibbana at a flat level, in a manner not aligned with the Buddha, and thus do not explain them in depth with regard to the four stages of nibbana.
Rarely does anyone clarify the practices associated with the four stages of nibbana.
Among these two categories of people, which is closer to the representation of the Buddha?

5. Some people present Dhamma matters on the surface while including their self-view, placing great importance on themselves, their stories, tradition, teachers, lineage, travels, friends, and things related to the conventional self. All that is made of conventional understanding is a projection, a delusion (an electromagnetic force field interpreted by the nervous system at the atomic level). Do you want to continue living in delusion, thinking it is the ultimate truth? Or do you want conventions to be there, as you cannot escape them, but not think they are the ultimate truths? Meaning, do not give them too much value, but understand beyond such things with wisdom. Which is closer to universal truths and emptiness?
Rare are those who do not bring themselves into the picture.
Typically, noble people talk of Dhamma matters without bringing their personal, conventional self-view into the picture, except in rare cases where it benefits the seeker in strengthening noble vision.
Why is that? Because who they are as a conventional self is of no importance to your practice, but their noble vision related to Buddha's Dhamma is important to you, as you can develop noble vision and enter the noble path.
In the noble path, we don't intend to compare people as individuals, as all beings are precious, and the universal training path is revealed merely for the purpose of letting go of suffering with stability, for those who seek it, and to experience nibbana.

To follow the Noble Path, it is necessary that you possess some degree of wisdom yourself, and these questions are presented for you to find answers and discover which path you want to take. Buddha and Arahants can show you the way to practice and fruition. If you seek to escape suffering with stability, you have to find what they show you within you naturally through wise questioning, investigation, and discovery.The noble path opens up for wise individuals who are willing to discover.

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17/08/2026

Most spiritual friends are well aware of three kinds of training that are helpful for entering the noble path: dana (generosity), sila (morality) and bhavana (wise reflection), but not in-depth. The ordinary Sangha explains them, but they need to be elaborated in depth as follows.

Dana or generosity:
Dana is of two kinds: offering material offerings to the Buddha, arahants, anagamis, sakadagamis, and sotapannas in order to experience Sotapanna (stream entry) and beyond.
Offering gratitude and the inner self to the Buddha and Dhamma (and noble Sanghas) by letting go of self-view and other fetters within you as dana.

Sila has two kinds: external and internal.
External sila means shaping external actions and words (body and speech), regardless of intentions.
Internal sila means shaping intentions (that can be developed across four stages of nibbana).

Bavana, or wise reflection, has two kinds: external and internal.
External refers to paying attention to sensations, thoughts, and breath and the like.
Internal reflection means understanding the meaninglessness of suffering with what causes suffering with wisdom or “nissarana", and letting go of suffering through investigation of one’s own mind, to letting go of self-view and other fetters.

Entering universal emptiness or cessation requires you to constantly engage in letting go of the first three fetters in the mind while enhancing wholesomeness through inner generosity (gratitude, a mind state) and inner precepts (intentions or the noble view, a mind state), and combining them.

"Friends, when one thing is developed and cultivated, it leads exclusively to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, enlightenment, and Nibbana.
What one thing? Recollection of the Buddha. (Universal Dhamma, universal Sanghas..)..
-AN 1.296-298

Infants do not understand what to eat or drink and what they like. Yet once they grow up, adults know what is what. In the same way, to grow on the noble path, it is beneficial to know what is what and know precisely to experience cessation from suffering with stability in nature’s way, that is Buddha’s universal path.

The aspects of generosity (dana) include gratitude and responsibility, To do wholesome and to shape thinking, doing, and acting, you initially need to know what is what, and this can be elaborated as follows.

Teachers must be cared for and appreciated because they have taught students new things and various things. Good parents should be respected because they have done much for children. Even those who contribute to society in many ways, including doctors, cleaners and plumbers, should be respected and appreciated because they have taken on difficult jobs that help others. The homeless, those without caste, the severely ill either physically or mentally, and the severely disabled should be cared for and respected for who they are and their circumstances. Ordinary monks, householders, and meditators should be respected for sharing the basics of practices related to letting go of suffering, and noble Sanghas should be respected for revealing how you can link existing practices to the noble path, which supports you to experience stages of nibbana. When you respect all beings, you can't hurt anyone.

An infant may eat a dress that is meant to be worn. In the same way, when it comes to follow the noble path, someone can respect and appreciate something that is not directly contributing to experiencing nibbana. The universe has a natural order and law, and that’s why Buddha has explained the nature’s law to you. For example, if you were to respect your mother for the reason you respect a teacher, that is not appropriate, as you have a different reason to respect and care for your parents within your capacity. If you were to respect Sangha who hold the Devadatta-like views or non-noble views, that would not help you experience nibbana, but it would help you engage in other practices you may choose to pursue. What to practice and what not to practice is an individual choice but knowing what the noble path is and what is not is helpful, as it refines the noble view through which you can enter the universal training path.

Even after someone has experienced the four stages of nibbana, they are still grateful to teachers, parents, friends, those who helped in many ways, those who contribute to society, and to all beings for merely being. However, if someone wants to experience universal Dhamma across stages, they have to follow the universal laws, appreciate and be grateful to those who share the universal path; it is through the path one can experience nibbana. Thus , to discover the universal training path, you may investigate the mind and explore reasons for your intentions, cause and effect. In doing so, when you respect all, you can't hurt your self or another.

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“Don’t say that, Ānanda, don’t say that! This dependent origination is deep and appears deep.”
-Mahānidānasutta, DN 15

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15/08/2026

Investigating current practices using a scientific approach (i.e systematic review) is a useful way to produce an overview of common practices, show gaps, and reveal how you can connect your existing practices to the universally applicable noble path merely for the purpose of letting go of suffering, enhancing mind states and quality of life.

Mindfulness practices suit those learning the basics of letting go of suffering. If someone needs a break from the constant flow of thoughts, especially stressful ones, they can focus on their breath or sensations to pause temporarily. Yet, mindfulness practices are limited, so sharers or teachers generally ask you to stop multitasking and focus on one task at a time. Yet some individuals can multitask and reflect on broader life experiences of suffering simultaneously, and for them, it would be appropriate to develop further practices to let go of suffering in daily life. This can be explained as follows;
Certain individuals may have a natural ability to reflect on broader life experiences while engaging in everyday activities. When they experience disappointment, frustration, sadness, misery, or anxiety, and alike, some of them will have the potential to develop further; the ability to immediately think and understand that life is hard, and that’s the nature of life. Then to immediately apply wisdom to understand that getting too sad, anxious, or frustrated and alike, is not needed; in the sense that making things hard for you when things are hard is not wise, especially since life in general is hard anyway, and there are sufferings. When life creates suffering, instead of suffering with it, you can divert energy to resolving what can be resolved and be happy with that as long as you have done your best, and understand that experiencing too much sadness, frustrations, and alike are not beneficial, as they don't impact the outcome; rather, they make you exhausted, and keep them aside. So instead of merely observing thoughts and letting go, you can adopt an investigative approach where you ask wise questions of yourself and your thoughts (e.g., why do I feel sad? If I feel sad, in what way is it helpful? Is it wise or unwise, etc.), and investigate your mind to discover the reasons for suffering, and apply wisdom to let go of suffering.

Letting go through mindfulness-based practices while attending to one task is attention-based letting go. Applying wisdom to investigate the mind and understanding worldly experiences, and letting go of suffering when suffering occurs while multitasking- is a preliminary approach to entering the noble path; it is more advanced. The latter is suitable for advanced practitioners (those with an advanced mind state or a deeper understanding of life experience, or “nissarana,” as discussed in a previous post).

When you hear practices from ordinary Sanghas who practice what they describe, you can learn the basics. Thereafter, you can expand the practices by hearing the universal path from noble friends.

You can link man-made versions of these practices (or mere conscious practices) to the universally applicable noble path.

Human beings are capable of thinking, speaking, and doing many things, and controlling certain things under will. Yet there are certain things, such as birth, death, and certain illnesses, that people don't control, and in such circumstances, nature takes control of beings. By surpassing what is conscious with wisdom, you can guide yourself in letting go of sufferings in a more stable manner. Buddha’s version of enlightenment (e.g., Stream winner) is a happening. When a person is reborn into emptiness in their mental continuum, their suffering ceases across stages.

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09/08/2026

Applying scientific methods (i.e systematic review and meta-analysis) to gather an overview of the practices recommended by the Sangha community to follow Buddha’s path and experience enlightenment is useful for reviewing and revealing current understanding within the community and the practices.

Before revising these practices, it is helpful for those interested and seeking escape from suffering in a stable manner—whether from the Sangha community, scientists interested in exploring further, or both—to know that there are mainly two versions of Dhamma paths, as below;
1. Practices related to man-made version of Dhamma:
If someone describes nibbana as happening through conscious practices alone (meditation, mindfulness, focused breathing, jhanas, lifestyles), they are describing a version of man-made enlightenment or nibbana.
2.Practices related to universal Dhamma
If someone describes nibbana as happening at a random time, like a person born in a random place without knowing, that better describes Buddha’s version of enlightenment or nibbana.

Among many kind and compassionate acts, giving food is the kindest act for those who are starving and in need.
Among many kind and compassionate acts, giving appropriate medicine is the kindest act for those who are ill and need medicine.

Among many kind and compassionate acts, contributing to the basic Dhamma path is helpful for beginners of Dhamma, either as a monk, householder, or a meditator alike.
Among many kind and compassionate acts, opening the universally applicable noble path by revealing the noble view through which noble efforts and noble mindfulness come to be by someone who has experienced stream winner to arahantship is the kindest act for those who seek escape from suffering with stability.

By now you should know many ways in which you could let go of suffering in a temporary manner, such as meditation, walking, trekking, meeting with friends, going to parties, staying, living, or visiting monasteries and like. Mere acts or actions are not relevant to karma or nibbana but intentions are. However, if you seek a stable way out of suffering, it could be of benefit for you if you would try to understand what is what.
Discussion around the practices is merely to open the noble path but not to compare people as individuals.

One may follow whatever path and practice that one chooses. Then they live the life they have chosen and will experience various kinds of stress and suffering from sensory information. This can be explained using three words;
1. “Assāda” or pleasures coming from sensory information; if you take such experiences with delusion, that leads to a deluded view of self and the world. Suppose you become happy based on sensory information and delusion, whether as a monk, householder, meditator, etc.; when things related to self and the world change, you will likely suffer. By now, you should have tried various practices, including becoming a monk, a meditator, or a householder. Through such practices, if you know your suffering did not cease with stability, that should be sufficient evidence to let go of non-noble vision; becoming a monk, householder, or meditator is not relevant to experiencing nibbana within. Instead, letting go of mental fetters (i.e self-view, social practices, etc.) while taking refuge in the universally applicable Triple Gem is relevant. You may adopt an evidence-based practice.
2. “Adinava”, due to not understanding the mind’s construction with wisdom, leads to stress and suffering in the mind. In other words, the way one interprets and understands oneself, others, and the world, including one’s chosen lifestyle, reveals that it cannot produce stable satisfaction based on sensory information. If you understood this much based on your life experience, you may develop your vision or understanding further to refine intentions (karma and Dhamma) regardless of what you do or your usual daily activities.
3. Nissarana: If you can understand the meaninglessness of clinging to experience satisfaction or pleasure through self and the world created through common ways (or conventional understanding of self and the world coming from sensory information), that is how you can give up delusion based on your personal life experience regardless of what you do to enhance quality of mind and quality of life.
Ordinary Sanghas divide Dhamma to teach you the basics.

Noble Sanghas unite Dhamma by revealing how you can grow beyond the basics to enter the universal noble path.

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02/08/2026

What is visible is the world. What is invisible is nibbana. To reach it in your mental continuum, the universal nature of emptiness, you may discover truths within, and nobly train your mind.

Conventional ways are limited, measurable, and often focus on decorating the outside like clothing (white cloths, cultured clothing, robes) and alike. If you want to escape suffering with stability through Buddha’s path to enlightenment, you must know the difference between the social practices and nibbana. Conventions are useful only when you surpass them with wisdom. Buddha taught invisible, in-depth, subtle universal Dhamma.

In Buddha’s universally applicable Dhamma, dress and hairstyles are not relevant. Buddhas do not appear to tell you to wear certain clothes or maintain your hair in a certain way; that would be basic and immature. Instead, Buddha taught to wear whatever you like and what is feasible for you. Develop wisdom to surpass what you wear and likewise develop invisible nibbana within. That explains why almost n**e or barely dressed Patachara attained stream entry or sotapanna. An acrobat attained arahantship while wearing an acrobat dress. A minister attained arahantship while wearing party or elegant wear. A Brahmin couple attained arahantship while wearing home wear. Nibbana happens at an unexpected time; no conscious effort is needed; it happens through nature.

“Uggasena attained arahatship while he was still performing his feats on top of a long bamboo pole.”
-Dhp 397

You may develop your practice on the noble path step by step. Where do you start?
Understand that typically, people cannot start engaging in acts they do not like; that is human nature. Although sometimes one can be forced to do certain things, one is likely to suffer through forced choices, especially because suffering tends to come even from chosen acts. Thus, initially, a person should take on a practice they like. Whether a dhutanga monk, forest monk, or householder, a person should have some liking for what they choose. Then they live the life they have chosen and will experience various kinds of stress and suffering from sensory information. Afterwards, they need to understand the meaninglessness of clinging to what they have chosen and how dissatisfaction stems from it. Thus, in whatever way you seek maximum happiness, when that thing does not bring maximum satisfaction, you may let go of clinging to it to through wise understanding of life experience. This can be explained using three words;
1. “Assāda” or pleasures coming from sensory information; if you take such experiences with delusion, that leads to a deluded view of self and the world. Suppose you become happy based on sensory information and delusion, whether as a monk, householder, meditator, etc., when things related to self and the world change, you will likely suffer. By now, you should have tried various practices, including becoming a monk, a meditator, or a householder. Through such practices, if you know your suffering did not cease with stability, that should be sufficient evidence to let go of non noble vision; becoming a monk, householder, or meditator is not relevant to experiencing nibbana within. Instead, letting go of mental fetters (i.e self-view, social practices etc.) while taking refuge in the universally applicable Triple Gem is relevant. You may adopt an evidence-based practice.
2. “Adinava”, due to not understanding the mind’s construction with wisdom, leads to stress and suffering in the mind. In other words, the way one interprets and understands self, others, and the world, including one’s chosen lifestyle, reveals that it cannot produce stable satisfaction based on sensory information. If you understood this much based on your life experience, you may develop your vision or understanding further to refine intentions (karma and Dhamma) regardless of what you do or your usual daily activities.
3. Nissarana: If you can understand the meaninglessness of clinging to experience satisfaction or pleasure through self and the world created through common ways (or conventional understanding of self and the world coming from sensory information), that is how you can give up delusion based on their personal life experience regardless of what what you do to enhance quality of mind and quality of life.

Over centuries, ordinary Sanghas have done well, they have been well versed with basic Dhamma, and there is no need to explain the basics of how to become a monk, householder, and alike, as these are well established. What is missing in Sangha communities is experience of nibbana across stages. Now the universally applicable noble path is revealed to you and how you can link the basics to the noble path.

Ordinary Sanghas divide Dhamma to teach you the basics.
Noble Sanghas unite Dhamma by revealing how you can grow beyond the basics to enter the universal noble path.

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