Some inauthentic passages in the Early Buddhist Texts

[Gabriel_L]

@brahmali

This is plenty enough to conclude that the immaterial attainments are not needed for awakening.

Bhante, what to say about the concept of a definitive liberation (nippariyāyenā nibbānaṃ) lying beyond the threshold of attainment and transcending of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception (neva­saññā­nā­sañ­ñāyata­naṃ), as found in AN9.47 and other suttas of AN’s 9th chapter?

Is it there just to support the model of Buddha’s parinibbana found in the DN16?

Stillness and liberating insight

EBTs are very consistent in terms of mapping how awakening gradually flourishes through an overall consistent virtue stillness wisdom process. The broad umbrella of the boddhipakkhya dhammas share this overall order of events or things. And the big-picture suttas like AN10.2, AN11.2 and SN12.23 offer some interesting hints at the detailed linkages one should expect to see occurring internally as the development of the path progresses through right effort, right mindf…