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Can a Layperson Practice the Actual Dhamma?

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Is there a way that's according to the Suttas whereby a lay person can actually practice successfully towards the stream-entry or higher?

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The books mentioned in the video discuss the historical differences between the Suttas and the later Commentaries and Abhidhammas, the original jhana practice taught by the Buddha, and later yogic-style concentration practices:

  • "Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight" by Keren Arbel


    • "Reexamining Jhana: Towards a Critical Reconstruction of Early Buddhist Soteriology" by Grzegorz Polak (https://www.academia.edu/34093551/Reexamining_Jhana_Towards_a_Critical_Reconstruction_of_Early_Buddhist_Soteriology)


      • "Nikaya Buddhism and Early Chan: A Different Meditative Paradigm" by Grzegorz Polak

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        @14:48 - A mistake, it wasn't Mahasi's teacher, but the teacher of Ledi Sayadaw called Hpo Hlaing.
        For further reading of some works that unintentionally reveal implicit esoteric, yogic, and Abhidhammic views that underlie modern Theravada, see:

        • "Kate Crosby - Esoteric Theravada: The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia"


          • "Kamala Tiyavanich - Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth Century Thailand"


            • "P.L. Dhar - Thai Forest Tradition and Advaita-Vedanta"

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