About This Answer
This question-and-answer evening opens with a series of written questions. A visionary image of a beautiful home elsewhere may or may not be true, Ajahn Dtun says; what matters is using this human life to build the perfections. Asked about Tibetan practice, he reflects that the prostrations he saw at Bodh Gaya show strong faith, patience and effort, but offers this only as his personal view. Women, he notes, have the same hands, hearts and minds as men, citing Mae Chee Kaew. Kamma, he says, works the same for every religion: fire is hot whoever grabs it.
He compares samatha to sharpening a knife and vipassana to using it to cut; a blunt mind must return to concentration. Lay people can realise the Dhamma if sila, samadhi and panna become one strong force, though seclusion helps.
He then completes the previous night's account of the stages, describing how the non-returner must see feeling, memory, mental formations and the knower itself arise and cease until delusion ends and only the pure mind remains.