That is where I was wrong.
Thank you 
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I think I knew that sir. If the mind can exist in a vaccum does it behave like electrons and their supposed counterpart popping into and out of existance in the void?
Were on to something here Paul.
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The monkeys are beautiful. Like the Mandelbrot set. What do you think @Mat? @paul1? @Viveka? We can’t forget Turing and Belousov. An arahat liberated both ways isn’t going to answer these questions for us- though it’s uncertain.
This is what I was referring to 
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That’s what I logged on to address. If identity view has caused anyone reading this to take offence, I am sorry for inferring foolishness.
I should choose my words more carefully. Anyone and fool, were the wrong words to use. As I said I’m a fool and I should be more flexible with my own views.
I beg of you, please tell me where you learned this? Was it a sutta? Was it a teacher? I don’t need to know which teacher. But if it was a sutta, that’s a question you could answer.
@Vattha I think I have heard it in teachings and that it was related to the different paths eg . AN4.163
https://suttacentral.net/an4.163/en/sujato
There have also been a number of discussions that address the question of 'are Jhanas necessary, like this one. Please Note that if you want to discuss more on that topic please do it on the existing thread and not on this thread (tidy housekeeping)
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@Mat sorry to bother you, this sutta only has one parallel and it’s the Chinese? Do we conclude that this is not an EBT?
I have yet to watch sujato and brahmali’s authenticity of EBT project.
The way EBTs themselves say how to determine if something is authentic is to see if it fits into the Dhamma and trainings for monks. I see nothing in this EBT that isn’t found elsewhere. It’s just about the DO!
You should read it, if you haven’t already. For me parallels help distinguish what was written hundreds of years later, after the teachings were brought to China.
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Thanks mat 
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I believe I once said to you that there there is no such thing as a sevenfold path. Look what happened soon after.
I have to thank you.
The monk on the left was reading shakspear a 12.
I did not invent this.