Hi Lal,
I am also interested in what the Budddha taught and what he meant. And i appreciate your research very much. I did and do ofcourse also my own research.
I have respect for different schools of buddhism and teachers but i will not refer to them anymore. But i belief those schools also have led and can lead to liberation.
I know ‘Dhamma’, in the end, does not refer to the teachings of the Buddha or his methods or any intellectual understanding of the teachings. The pure Dhamma cannot be found on internet, in books, in writings Lal. That’s the truth.
I know ‘pure Dhamma’ refers to Nibbana, the unborn and uncreated, the unconditioned.
A Buddha shows the path to the unconditioned (SN43.1). For me, that’s his core bussiness!
The Buddha does invite us to see the timeless Dhamma (not his teachings) for ourselves.
Tilakkhana and sotapanna
I belief that understanding Tilakkhana can lead to cooling down, in the sense of becoming more realistic what to expact of this world, and also really seeing the uselessness of greed, much desire, craving, hate, inner fire.
But i belief the teachings refer to this ripening understanding of tilakkhana as a proces of becoming less wordly. It wants to subside these wordly desires in ourselves. It wants us to turn the mind to the Dhamma, but do we see the timeless Dhamma yet?
I belief that is the distinctive mark of a sotapanna.
This is not meant to offend or agitate you.
Siebe