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stream question

budhabeebudhabee
edited June 2010 in Buddhism Basics
I keep hearing about this stream. Does it bubble? Does it turn your blankets into waves that flow around you? Does it wake you up from a sound sleep? Ive heard of false awakenings but I don't think it is a hypnogogic or that other one that so many sleep therapists like to tag it with. Does it announce the coming of an incredible experience or an incredible being.

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  • sukhitasukhita
    edited June 2010
    This might help :)
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    edited June 2010
    Does it wake you up from a sound sleep?

    Only if you live right next to it and leave your window open. Especially if it has been raining hard the past day or 2, causing the water level to rise and become a bit louder than normal.:)
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    edited June 2010
    budhabee wrote: »
    Does it bubble?

    Yes, but the bubbles are all empty.
    Does it announce the coming of an incredible experience or an incredible being.

    It is not an announcement, it is the continuous connected experience of the Four Noble Truths as realised within The Noble Eightfold Path.

    :)

    namase
  • FoibleFullFoibleFull Canada Veteran
    edited June 2010
    Ah ... you must be referring to "stream-enterer".

    Okay, so I copied this from dummies.com. I apologize for not using a more high-falutin' source, but this is simply put in uncomplicated beginner's language ...
    the first of the four distinct stages on the path to nirvana.
    • Stream-enterer: The first direct insight into selflessness is often the most powerful because it's unlike anything you've ever experienced before. For a timeless moment (which may last just an instant), no one is there — that is, there's no trace of a separate self anywhere. A feeling of tremendous relief, often accompanied by joy and bliss, generally follows the experience: At last, you've had the insight you've been seeking for so long. At last, you've "entered the stream" of realization.
      When you become a stream-enterer, you can never again believe that you're really a separate self that lives inside your head and looks through your eyes. Your experience forever eliminates this illusion. When you look within, you can't find a self anywhere. In everyday life, however, you may still feel like a separate somebody and may still get caught up by greed, anger, ignorance, and various other negative feelings and patterns. Fortunately, the stage of stream-enterer also brings an unshakable confidence and dedication to the Buddhist spiritual path, so you're motivated to keep deepening and refining your realization.

    Read more: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/realizing-the-four-stages-on-the-path-to-nirvana.html#ixzz0r2qcgkkS
  • budhabeebudhabee
    edited June 2010
    heh heh good one Seeker, Im glad I can ask this question here on the forum cuz I don't want anybody sticking me in the funny farm. Soooo....not the stream I was thinking then. Well hell. I was in the wrong lane again.
  • FoibleFullFoibleFull Canada Veteran
    edited June 2010
    Yeah, maybe the wrong lane ... but when we travel our own road there's never any on-coming traffic, so it's no big deal!
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    edited June 2010
    FoibleFull wrote: »
    Yeah, maybe the wrong lane ... but when we travel our own road there's never any on-coming traffic, so it's no big deal!

    Until you reach the end of the road and find that the bridge is out, then you go to step on the brakes...and they don't work! Oh noooo! What then?? Over the side and down the canyon with a big fireball when you hit the ground and god dammit that hurts! Is it better to just get off the road?

    But lucky us we don't have to, cause there was this guy named Buddha and he said he found this place where you can buy a car that can fly. He said its down a street named Eightfold. Hehe :p:lol::D
  • budhabeebudhabee
    edited June 2010
    heh heh yeah Seeker, then when u unite with the people who love you and care for you, you get bragging rights: When they asked how you died you can say...In a freaking fireball man! It was awesome. (lol)
  • budhabeebudhabee
    edited June 2010
    Yes Thickpaper they truly were empty inside but they floated about in my room and all around me. You could hear them. Kinda like a diver hears his bubbles while underwater. It was very strange. And the water had an odor. One I have never smelled before. But I can't even describe it. hmmm....maybe a little like freon. (sp)
  • budhabeebudhabee
    edited June 2010
    ty Foiblefull...that was very helpfull.
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