April 7, 2024 at 8:04 am
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- To add another detail, an anagami can also attain these. The story of the secular anagami Matikamata is an example. She developed patisambhidā!A tamed mind brings happiness
Mātikamātā also developed an interest in meditation and requested the monks to teach her how to meditate. The monks taught her to meditate on the thirty-two loathsome parts of the body, which can help one gain insight into the fruitless nature of the body. Mātikamātā began meditating diligently and was able to attain the first three paths and fruitions of the Buddhist spiritual path of liberation. She also developed Analytical Insight (patisambhidā) along with mundane supernormal powers even before the sixty monks did.