How can someone be sure they are a stream entrant?!

[Khemarato.bhikkhu]

@Gabriel

With time I have adopted Joy Manne’s understanding that stream-entry was part of the conversion-complex - with faith in the Buddha one would have become automatically a stream-enterer. The abhidhammic ‘nibbana-experience’ at stream-entry would have come later on.

Not so.

The “opening of the Dhamma eye” at Stream Entry is not mere “conversion” in the faith-based religious sense (EDIT: the Buddhist equivalent to “conversion” is “going for refuge”).

Stream Entry is a definitive insight into impermanence: SN56.11

The best anthology I’ve seen relating to SE is this handbook on how “to proclaim Stream Entering by oneself.”

Hope that helps! ^