Law of Karma: your external world is a reflection of your internal world.
Path to Nirvana (Liberation from Samsara):
- 1st stage (Stream-enterer)
- Finite faith ("Homelessness")
- 2nd stage (Once-returner)
- Moral discipline (Divine "discipline"/Boot camp)
- Union with the divine
- Moral discipline (Divine "discipline"/Boot camp)
- 3rd stage (Nonreturner) (Rebirth in Pure Abodes)
- Meditation (concentration) (Body, feeling, mind, and phenomena)
- 4 jhanas of form (4 infinite divine abodes including infinite time)
- Serenity
- Unifying the mind (Mindfulness)
- 4 jhanas of form (4 infinite divine abodes including infinite time)
- Optional
- 4 jhanas of formlessness
- Meditation (concentration) (Body, feeling, mind, and phenomena)
- 4th stage (Arahant) (Only the illusion of imperfection remains)
- Nirvana (Illusion of imperfection is gone)