Learner and adept

sekha / asekha

Threshold & awakening Building on it Stage 8 of 8

The sekha is still in training (from stream-enterer to non-returner); the asekha — "one beyond training" — has completed it. DN 33 lists the ten qualities of one who is beyond training.

On the path: 8 · Awakening and integration — What does liberation mean in the canonical sense? Nibbāna, conditioned and unconditioned, the four fruits, the fetters, liberation of heart, liberation by wisdom. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of ten · Realizing · DN 33 · dn33:3.3.86

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Passages where sekha / asekha occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Tipiṭaka · dn33 · German

‘Moho me pahīno ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo’ti pajānāti. Evaṁ kho, āvuso, bhikkhu suvimuttapañño hoti. That’s how a mendicant’s mind is well freed by wisdom. So ist ein Mönch durch Weisheit gut befreit. Dasa asekkhā dhammā— <em>Ten qualities of an adept:</em> Zehn Eigenschaften eines der Schulung Entwachsenen: asekkhā sammādiṭṭhi, asekkho sammāsaṅkappo, asekkhā sammāvācā, asekkho sammākammanto, asekkho sammāājīvo, asekkho sammāvāyāmo, asekkhā sammāsati, asekkho sammāsamādhi, asekkhaṁ sammāñāṇaṁ, asekkhā sammāvimutti. an adept’s right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right …

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