Friends, please read the following question twice and then answer it as you choose.
In what place does the attachment to a notion of Self utterly cease without any remainder?
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I am not sure there is attachment “to” a self. Maybe it is attachment “as” self.
It is in this fathom-long carcass with its perception and mind that I describe the world, its origin, its cessation and the practice that leads to its cessation.
AN 4.45
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Arahanthood.
Depends on how you define the attachment to notion of self also.
Self view is gone at stream winning, but the conceit “I am” is gone at arahanthood.
I interepreted your wordings as referring to conceit.
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So one must travel to the end of the world, but not by physical power or relying on machinery. It seems that to travel in this figurative sense can only be achieved by driving the “vehicle” of insight meditation.
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Yes, this refers to asmimana. Thanks for your answer.
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In that place where the notion of Self is completely understood, with wisdom, that is without affirming “a Self exists” or “a Self does not exist” or “a Self both exists and (then) doesn’t exist” or “a Self neither exists nor doesn’t exist”(isn’t real, perhaps?). The person of understanding knows and sees “the Self”, knows it’s beginning, knows it’s end, knows it’s pleasure, knows it’s pain, and knows the transcendence/escape/path-through/path-beyond “the Self”.
Such a person is freed from “the Self” by not grasping at it, not being attached to it, not relying on it for their happiness, joy, sense of meaning and worth, etc etc, utterly free from it, they wander the emptiness.
The last bit I tried to be a bit poetical, but I think that is the basic answer to the question from the EBT perspective.
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