Meditation for Beginners
First Disciple: the most seasoned in the Perfections
become a Stream-Enterer the first to attain Enlightenment under the dispensation of our Lord Buddha.
At the end of the Lord Buddha’s sermon, kondanna, the leader of the ‘Group of Five’, became a Stream-Enterer [sotapana]. He had seen with the eye of (the body of) enlightenment that ‘Whatever is of the nature of arising, has the nature of cessation’ and in his context, he saw that his own aggregates were of such a mature all of the nature of arising and cessation.
The earth-sprites [bhumadevata] unanimously praised the supremacy of the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta, saying that it was incomparable with anything taught by monks, Brahmins, angels, Maras, gods or anyone in the world. The praises resounded amongst the angels sequentially higher and higher in the various levels of heaven until it reached the Brahma-world. The cosmos quaked and there arose limitless brightness.
The Buddha knew of the attainment of kondanna
The Buddha knew of the attainment of kondanna and exclaimed ‘Annasi vata bho kondanno, annasi vata bho kondanno’ (kondanna now you know’) and for this reason kondanna was henceforth known as ‘Annakondana’ (kondana who knows).
In fact, the ‘group of five’ had already been ordained for a long time, and were already endowed with self-discipline and meditation. However, they still lacked the wisdom to see the path out of suffering. After the Buddha had clarified the Harmfulnes of the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification, and advocated the following of the Misdle Way or Noble Eightfold Path, the ‘group of five’, especially kondanna who was most seasoned in his Perfections was able to become a Stream-Enterer the first to attain Enlightenment under the dispensation of our Lord Buddha.
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