Once-returning

Once-returning is the second stage of the four stages of awakening. This stage does not involve the eradication any new fetters. The once-returner eliminates the same three fetters destroyed with the attainment of stream-entry and additionaly attenuates the three unwholesome roots so that they do not arise often and if they do arise do not become obsessive. As the name implies, the once-returner will come back to this world only one more time and then attain final Nibbana.

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References

• Bodhi, Bhikkhu. (2005). In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discources from the Pali Canon Chapter 10. The Planes of Realization (Location 6455). Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.

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