Reply To: Distinctive understanding of the Sotapanna?

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sybe07
Spectator

Thanks Lal.

The unconditioned element is in sutta’s (SN43.14-43, translation Bodhi) also called: the far shore…the subtle…the very difficult to see…the unaging…the stable…the undisintegrating…the unnanifesting…the unproliferated…the peaceful…the deathless…the sublime…the auspicious…the secure…the destruction of craving…the wonderful… the amazing…the unailing…the unailing state… Nibbana…the unafflicted…dispassion…purity…freedom…
the unadhesive…the island… the shelter… the asylum … the refuge”

And in SN43.13 it is called the uninclined.

If one sees the deathless, Nibbana, the refuge, does one than at the same time see this is in fact the true identity of us, or, in other words, the nature of mind?

I ask this, because how can the unailing state, the deathless, the unconditioned etc. be a refuge when this is only an object of a magga citta?

How can any (sense) object of a citta ever function as a refuge? How can Nibbana be a object of a citta and be a refuge?

Siebe

. How do you understand this?