The Ten Stages in the General Doctrine

The Ten Stages of Spiritual Development for those of the Three Vehicles

Stage	Name	Description
1	Dry Insight	Worldly wisdom unfertilized by the inner spiritual work of Buddhism; it includes A. Sila - The Precepts of Morality; A moral code of conduct B. Samatha - Five Techniques for quieting and subduing the mind; meditations on breathing, impurity, kindness & compassion, causality, and sensory perception. C. Vipasyana - Observation of The Four Spheres of Mindfulness, generally (all together) and separately considering them in terms of impurity, suffering, impermanence & selflessness
2	Embryonic Stage of the Buddha Nature	The beginning stages of inner spiritual cultivation & insight meditation, which includes the Four Good Roots (S. Kusala Mula), which are A. The Warming (S.usmagata) - the cognitive and affective functions of the mind focus solely on The Four Truths in meditation and self-reflection B. The Peak Experience (S. murdhan) - Attaining a deep revelation about the Four Truths - this is the last stage at which a backsliding is possible, but it is also a moment when one realizes that there are further peaks ahead C. Spiritual Endurance (S. ksanti) - One gets past the revelation experience and endures in the work of lasting insight meditation on the Four Truths D. The Highest in the World (S. laukikagrata) - Attaining the highest mundane knowledge about the Four truths - a result of fully realizing the meaning of the Sixteen Aspects of the Four Truths.
3	The Eighfold Endurance	Endurance in the Cultivation of Meditation that turns into Wisdom, in 2 parts: A. The Fourfold Endurance in Dharma (Spirituality) - One cultivates enduring observation of the Four Truths to eradicate the false views that occur during meditation in the Realm of Desire. B. The Fourfold Endurance in Order - One cultivates enduring observation of the the Four Truths to eradicate the false views that occur during meditation in the Realms of Form and Formlessness.
4	Freedom From False Views	The final eradication of false views
5	Freedom from Weakness	Eradication of the more basic kinds improper motives such as greed, hatred, conceit & ignorance
6	Freedom from Desire	Eradication of the more subtle forms of improper motives including desire, anger, pride & ignorance
7	Already Discerning	Arhat - Views and Motives are always true and correct
8	Pratyekabuddha	Spiritually self-awakened
9	Bodhisattva	Spiritually awakened but remaining in this world to help save others - the path to enlightenment
10	Buddha	The Spiritual Enlightenment

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