Berikut ini ada cuplikan dari Majjhima nikaya 64, Mahamalunkya Sutta, The greater discourse to Malunkluya.
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"And what, Ananda, is the path, the way to abandoning of the five loewr fetters? Here, with seclusion from objects of attachment, with the abandoning of unwholesome states, with the complete tranquillization of bodily inertia, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, a bhikkhu enters upon and abides in the first jhana, which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought, with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion.
"Whatever exists therein of material form, feeling, perception, formations, and conciousness, he sees those states as impermanent, as suffering, as a disease, as a tumour, as a barb, as a calamity, as an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as void, as not self. He turns his mind away from those states and directs it towards the deathless element thus: 'This is the peaceful, this is the sublime, that is, the stilling of all formations, the relinquishing of all attachments, the destruction of craving, dispassion, cessation, Nibbana.' Standing upon that, he attains the destruction of the taints. ABut if he does not attain the destruction of hte taints, then because of that desire for the Dhamma, that delight in the Dhamma, with the destruction of the five lower fetters he becomes one due to appear spontaneously [in the Pure Abodes] and there attain final Nibbana without ever returning from that world. This is the path, the way to the abandoning of the five lower fetters.
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Pada cuplikan diatas, diajarkan cara untuk memutuskan 5 belenggu terendah (orambhÄgiya-samyojana) dari total 10 belenggu. Jika sudah mematahkan 5 belenggu maka disebut sebagai anagami.
Ada kalanya dalam usaha tersebut kita bisa menghapus kekotoran batin keseluruhan (arahant), jika tidak maka akan menjadi seorang anagami yang akan terlahir di alam sudhavasa.
Tentu diperlukan jhana jg untuk seorang arahant.