The three core stages of the Buddha's teachings in the Nikaya Suttas
The three core stages of the Buddha's teachings in the Nikaya Suttas: learning the Right Dhamma, understanding the Right Dhamma, and practicing the Right Dhamma. These are three inseparable stages on the path to enlightenment. If any of these three are missing, the practice will be incomplete and unlikely to yield the desired results. - First, you must learn the right Dharma so that it is easy to understand and practice to get results. If you choose to learn the wrong Dharma in the first step, you will definitely not be able to practice the Dharma correctly. Nowadays, many methods of practice are wrong, such as doing what Buddha taught, praying, chanting mantras, kneeling, asking for blessings from gods, using money to buy blessings, going far from Buddha's teachings or faking Buddha's teachings. - So how do we know that Dharma is a good Dharma, leading to the higher? That is to contemplate and practice for ourselves. If we see that Dharma makes our body and mind peacef...