Muslim background and sotapanna

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Hello, this is my first post, I am glad to be here.

I was wondering about the third fetter “attachment to rites and rituals” on the road to sotapanna.

I have a muslim family background and occasionally pray with them to respect their tradition, I am not at all attached to that by the way.

Am I in the wrong ?

Thank you.

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Hi Sami and welcome to the forum.
I personally don’t think that it is helpful to take the fetters as precepts. These are insights which one has as a result of the practice towards stream entry.

If you know that you are not going to get enlightened/liberated/saved by praying with your family, but you do it out of compassion and love for them then this seems like something that increases wholesome qualities and doesn’t create more delusion.

Just keep doing good and cultivating your mind and you will naturally let go of any aspects of your life which you are doing ritualistically or selfishly.

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Hi Sami,

I remember Ajahn Chah making a distinction between misapprehending rituals and performing them. The former is blameworthy, the later is not.

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Once you understand deeply the dhamma , you will know how to do . Which is the condition causing the arisen of dukkha and which isnt .

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Third fetter does not merely capture the idea of adherence to rules and rituals. Only if they are accompanied by the wrong view one would be careful. For an example if the prayer confirms the wrong view of eternal soul/or a permanent existence of some form that would feed a wrong view as far as the Buddhism is concerned.

Your description looks like a different thing driven by the compassion towards your family.

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Welcome to the forum.

See this post of another topic:

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I will check that, thank you.