Hey guys, need your help here. I remember listening or reading a
year or two ago about someone saying that actually a proper
buddhist householder is not just expected to take the precepts,
walk the noble eightfold path, but also to actually attain the
insight into anatta. Thing is, I can't remember who said this, only
that I believe it's by a female teacher. Also, does anyone know if
there's scriptural support for this?
You can find description in DN 16 Maha-parinibbana
Sutta and also other
suttas as well.
In DN
16 under heading The Four Specific
Attainments it is stated as
follows:
……."The layman Sudatta, Ananda, through the
destruction of the three fetters (self-belief, doubt, and faith in
the efficacy of rituals and observances), and the lessening of
lust, hatred, and delusion, has become a once-returner and is bound
to make an end of suffering after having returned but once more to
this world.
"The laywoman Sujata, Ananda, through the
destruction of the three fetters has become a stream-enterer, and
is safe from falling into the states of misery, assured, and bound
for Enlightenment.
"The layman Kakudha, Ananda, through the
destruction of the five lower fetters (that bind beings to the
world of the senses), has arisen spontaneously (among the
Suddhavasa deities), and will come to final cessation in that very
place, not liable to return from that world.
"So it is with Kalinga, Nikata, Katissabha,
Tuttha, Santuttha, Bhadda, and Subhadda, and with more than fifty
laymen in Nadika. More than ninety laymen who have passed away in
Nadika, Ananda, through the destruction of the three fetters, and
the lessening of lust, hatred, and delusion, have become
once-returners and are bound to make an end of suffering after
having returned but once more to this world.
"More than five hundred laymen who have
passed away in Nadika, Ananda, through the complete destruction of
the three fetters have become stream-enterers, and are safe from
falling into the states of misery, assured, and bound for
Enlightenment.