The Four Modes of Direct
Experience:
The Exalted Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these 4 realizable states:
What four ?
By the body one realizes the
8 releasing liberations.
By memory one realizes one's
prior lives in all diverse detail.
By the divine eye one realizes
the death
& rebirth of beings.
By understanding one realizes elimination of
the
mental fermentations.
These, Bhikkhus, are the 4 realizable States...
More on Direct Experience:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Direct_Experience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Escape.htm
Source: The Numerical Sayings of the
Buddha. Anguttara Nikāya II 182
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/index.html
4 x Realizable Release ...!!!
