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Hi Element,

Knowing that I am beginner at the subtle art of "sutta thumping" this are some comments for the first set of suttas; the "Anathapindika Suttas (AN10.93; MN143)" at the OP.

AN 10.93 remembers me DN1. Seems that both are about clinging to views. The closing formula for each view given at DN1 is:

36 This, bhikshus, the Tathāgata understands. And he understands thus:
‘These standpoints,64 thus grasped, thus misapprehended, will lead to such a future destiny, to such a
state beyond.’
And thus, the Tathāgata understands; he understands, too, what transcends this. Yet, he does not misapprehend
[cling on to] that understanding.65 [17] And because he is free from wrong grasping, he has
known for himself [within himself]66 the cool [happy] state.
Having understood, as they really are, the arising, and the ending, and the gratification, and the
danger, and the escape regarding feelings, the Tathagata, bhikshus, is liberated through non-clinging.

DN1
From such, I am not sure if the "cool [happy] state" is awakening or eventualy leads to awakening, because at the end we read to be"liberated through non-clinging".

Seems that Anathapindika at AN 10.93 has mastered the "Net of Views" but when going to the moment when Anathapindika is near to death, the instructions given to him seem similar to the practice of the instructions given at the Satipatana Sutta.

If the condition of dropping all clinging to views are not enough for awakening, then both suttas complement, taken not as historical development of the awakening of Anathapindika but, through the use of a same character, to give an example of the need to develop the "non self" realization as a final path for awakening.

If the condition of dropping all clinging to views is enough for awakening, both sets can be taken apart from each other knowing that both understandings can lead to awakening.

However, AN 10.93 do not seem to me as a teaching for final awakening but a needed condition toward the goal, while MN143 seems an instruction for final awakening. As far as I can go, the realization of the instructions for MN 143 need the realization of AN 10.93 but AN 10.93 seems not enough for the final goal.

In my experience, a quite mental state, the stilness of mind precedes the abandonment of views and such abandonment leads to futher insight and a deepened state of mental peace.

But anyway... help is needed...