Discourse on path attainment and different path models currently being followed by pragmatic practice
4 th Path (based on MCTB) and its equivalent stage based on the Sutta Pitaka (Theravadan Four Stages of Enlightenment) There appears to be a growing consensus by those of us who had followed the developmental progress via a la MCTB: not only has the yogi experienced a few important permanent shifts in the way one relates to phenomena, the attainment of 4 th path appears to have given us a "complete set of tools" necessary to investigate in real time any type of manifesting phenomena. So...what does this mean? is "done what needed to be done"? or is it more work yet ahead (for those aiming at what the Buddha called "full liberation") My experiences attaining to 4 th path had a couple of interesting elements I believe are worth discussing. One was what I still to this day hold as the very first time I fully got to experience (well, "experience" is not the correct word, it is more of a direct contact, but for the sake of simplicity I will use ...