Sir, I was reading the reverse process of PS (avijja nirodah shakhara nirodho) and was wondering if the process works only after one has gained stream entry or it can happen to anyone trying to follow the noble 8 fold path.
I was thinking it is probably being activated while doing vipassana, because when in meditation, one is stopping vaci shankhara from arising, and I presume the old shankhara rise up to fill in the void, and by simply watching them and not indulging in them, they go away, and other old one arise, and the process of purification starts.
I had also heard of a preliminary stage of sotapanna called chullu sotapanna (may be I probably misspelled it). Is there such a stage?
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