I have been reading quite a few articles about buddhism, and also some scriptures. There I constantly find the phrase “Dhamma arising in one’s mind”, What does it really mean? Example:
“Upon hearing the first two lines, there
arose in the wanderer Upatissa the dust-free, stainless vision of the
Dhamma - the first glimpse of the Deathless, the path of Stream-entry -
and to the ending of the last two lines he already listened as a
stream-enterer”.
Great Disciples of the Buddha
by Hellmuth Hecker &
Nyanaponika Thera
To me this phrase is referring to a felt experience.
The Dhamma ceases to be just a perception of things external to you. It ceases to be a perception of how you might even view yourself.
The use of such strong phrasing (Dhamma arising in one’s mind) seems to indicate that this a potent, powerful experience - something deeply, profoundly transformative and one’s mind is never the same again.
Perhaps it is very slightly similar to those ordinary moments in our life when we suddenly realise something we didn’t realise before and the new realisation suddenly seems to arise up.
Hello Charith, the phrase “Dhamma arising in one’s mind” or put another way “the dust-free, stainless vision of the Dhamma” means the one seeing the Dhamma has had their first glimpse of Nibbana otherwise known as the realization of Stream-entry.
