Does something special happen to a person at that moment of entering the path to Sotāpanna?

Question:  Does something special happen to a person at that moment of entering the path to Sotāpanna? 

Than Ajahn: When one sees that the body will get sick, get old and die and the suffering that arises in the body is the cause of his suffering then he enters into the path and what he has to do now is to let go of the body. In order to let go, the mind has to have the strength and you can get the strength from sitting in samādhi. Once you have entered into calm then you can let go of the body.

When you go to funeral service and you see that ‘oh, my God! I will also die’, then you start to see the truth but you still cannot let go of the body yet. You are still afraid of death. But if you practise meditation and once your mind is calm, you can look at the truth of the body and say to yourself, “ok no problem.” When the body dies, if the mind is peaceful, it doesn’t matter.

Dhamma in English, Jul 14, 2016.

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