3 deliverance 8 liberations and stages of enlightenment
Upvote:1
According to Classical Theravada (that is, the Pali Canon as interpreted by the Commentaries and the Visuddhimagga) the three deliverance just refer to which of the three characteristics is the most prominently contemplated the mind to attain enlightenment, and there isn't much of a practical difference.
The eight liberation are mostly an alternate way of describing the progression of samadhi. You can describe it in a lot of different ways, the Jhanas are just one way of talking about it.
You also ask how to switch to the contemplation of the five aggregates after attaining concentration, especially using anapanasati. The most general description of this is given in the Visuddhimagga:
One who wants to accomplish [insight], if, firstly, his vehicle is serenity, should emerge from any fine-material or immaterial jhána, except the base consisting of neither perception nor non-perception, 3 and he should discern, according tocharacteristic, function, etc., the jhána factors consisting of applied thought, etc., and the states associated with them, [that is, feeling, perception, and so on]. When he has done so, all that should be defined as “mentality” (náma) in the sense of bending (namana) 4 because of its bending on to the object.
Then, just as a man, by following a snake that he has seen in his house, finds its abode, so too this meditator scrutinizes that mentality, he seeks to find out what its occurrence is supported by and he sees that it is supported [588] by the matter of the heart. After that, he discerns as materiality the primary elements, which are the heart’s support, and the remaining, derived kinds of materiality that have the elements as their support. He defines all that as “materiality” (rúpa) because it is “molested” (ruppana) [by cold, etc.]. After that he defines in brief as “mentality-materiality” (náma-rúpa) the mentality that has the characteristic of “bending” and the materiality that has the characteristic of “being molested.”
(Visuddhimagga XVIII.3-4)
In other words, after attaining concentration, your switch your object of meditation to the mental qualities in the mind caused by such concentration. You put your attention on and observe the qualities of peace, clarity, joy, etc... and see them very clearly. After that, you turn to the body, watching and observing the physical sensations of the body such as hardness, cohesion, movement, heat, etc...
If you want detailed instructions on how to do this especially for Anapanasati, this section of Ajahn Buddhadasa's book on Anapanasati is one of the best in my opinion: http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books3/Buddhadasa_Bhikkhu-Anapanasati-Fourth_Tetra.pdf
More post
- 📝 Is regret worth?
- 📝 What are the Three Trainings and how are they practical?
- 📝 Rebirth, transfer of memories, what is it?
- 📝 Is exposing immoral behavior divisive speech?
- 📝 Transferring merit to someone living who isnt open minded to receiving it
- 📝 How/Why to be moral without believing God or any supernatural entity?
- 📝 Pure Land Schools' version of the Three (or Four) Marks of Existence
- 📝 I am a buddhist, and i have a harm OCD
- 📝 Can a non-Buddhist get Nirvana?
- 📝 Nature of Craving in Charm and Impressing Others
- 📝 What is the difference between samadhi and samatha?
- 📝 If someone says publicly that he has achieved nirvana , can it be true?
- 📝 What the characters of a human being?
- 📝 What did Buddha say about dysfunctional families for novice practitioners?
- 📝 Be like water - but what if i fail
- 📝 Building discipline & willpower from scratch
- 📝 Is the conventional self "conventional" in the same way as dharmas are?
- 📝 What is the mark of cessation?
- 📝 Is wanting to do something = desire?
- 📝 How did the Buddha define success?
- 📝 Why did Buddha continue jhāna after enlightenment?
- 📝 Must I continue a relationship with my abusive parents?
- 📝 Disguised negative emotions and the mindless brawl called an election
- 📝 Does the level of awareness of an awakened buddhist also stay the same event when he sleeps?
- 📝 If Sabbe Dhamma Anatta then is there hope?
- 📝 Is Buddhism just Hinduism stripped for export?
- 📝 Can a lay person observe the ten precepts on uposatha days?
- 📝 Karma and one's own belief about the event
- 📝 Why is Nibbanna unconditioned if it's dependent on mind & brain
- 📝 If I reach absorption concentration are the hindrances fully gone?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 3 deliverance 8 liberations and stages of enlightenment
- 📝 Is there such a thing as craving for enlightenment and would it be unwholesome?
- 📝 Shiva's 112 ways to attain enlightenment and Buddha's way
- 📝 What is the difference between Enlightenment and Nibbana?
- 📝 Are Buddha nature and Original enlightenment different, or always identical?
- 📝 Stages of equanimity and the end
- 📝 Could the Buddha have touched goal and gems in the 7 weeks after enlightenment
- 📝 Can someone give references of the four stages of enlightenment in the four major Nikayas?
- 📝 Looking for a quote, sutta or teaching about suffering not decreasing with succedent stages of enlightenment
- 📝 Relationship or mapping between Jhanas ( 4 + 4) and the four stages of Enlightment
- 📝 What would be the relationship between mindfulness, enlightenment and incubation?
- 📝 Is killing vermin and insects justifiable?
- 📝 What are the differences between vipassana and mindfulness meditation?
- 📝 Relationship with bad parents (kamma and issues)
- 📝 Are Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism the same thing?
- 📝 Comparison of Nirvana, Tao and Brahman/Atma
- 📝 How to deal with people and handle rude language?
- 📝 As a Buddhist with a Muslim family, community, and background... how do you integrate/cope?
- 📝 How concentrated is access concentration and how would one recognise it?
- 📝 How are 'conceit' and 'identity-view' not the same?
- 📝 Is Enlightenment a misleading ideal?
- 📝 Meditation and 'not trying to change anything'
- 📝 How do I slow down and start living according to my values? How do I change the direction of my life?
- 📝 Does studying mathematics or science lead to a practitioner of Buddhism acquiring wrong philosophical views and mental afflictions?
- 📝 How compatible are the beliefs of atheists and Buddhism?
- 📝 Strange feelings after meditation and mindfulness practice?
- 📝 What is the difference between craving and clinging?
- 📝 What are the differences/similarities in the concept of faith as used in Buddhism and Christianity?
- 📝 What's Buddhism view on choice, choicelesness and causality?
- 📝 Does meditation increase productivity for software developers and related professions?