I would like to know about the Threefold Knowledge (Vijja 3)
Tell me please, If someone can know or attain in each of the threefold knowledge such as
One can know super normal knowledge which enables one to remember the various past courses of one’s own existences. Which level of the one can be attain? for example, one who has attained the third stage of holiness etc.
The threefold knowledge
Re: The threefold knowledge
It would seem to me that the threefold knowledge is peculiar to the way a Samma-sam-Buddha attains enlightenment. As many savakas attained ariyanship without attaining supernormal powers such as past life recollection.
There has already been some discussion on this topic here:
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9086
These discussions seem to be mostly speculative though.
In my personal opinion, it is much more important to become a sotapanna than it is to recollect past lives. People should focus their efforts on nibbana, rather than attaining super powers
metta
Jack
There has already been some discussion on this topic here:
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9086
These discussions seem to be mostly speculative though.
In my personal opinion, it is much more important to become a sotapanna than it is to recollect past lives. People should focus their efforts on nibbana, rather than attaining super powers
metta
Jack
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks