Deepening · 6 texts · about 35 minutes
Purification and Insight
The canonical sources behind the seven purifications. The sixteen insight knowledges of the Visuddhimagga are a later commentarial map built on this structure.
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The seven purifications, each one a chariot that carries you to the next, as far as extinguishment.
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No need to wish for the next stage: each stage naturally gives rise to the next.
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Sāriputta’s insight into the factors of each jhāna, one by one, as they arise and cease.
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A gradual descent into emptiness, ending in the emptiness of the defilements.
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The great forty: how right view leads the other path factors.
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Each factor of the noble eightfold path defined.