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My opinion is "no". Stream entry leads to jhana.

For example, of right concentration & jhana, the Buddha taught the mind first establishes itself in letting go of "self".

When "self" is let go of and the mind without "self" is witnessed without doubt, this is the stream enterer.

Imo, witnessing the mind without "self" will occur before jhana.

(However, rapture & happiness can arise on lower levels of concentration before the mind without "self" is witnessed.)

(These days, because jhana is packaged & marketed on supermarket shelves as take away fast food, many practitioners wish to declare any experience of rapture & happiness as "jhana".)


Regards



And what is the faculty of concentration? There is the case where a monk, a disciple of the noble ones, making it his object to let go, attains concentration, attains singleness of mind. Quite withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful mental qualities, he enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. With the stilling of directed thoughts & evaluations, he enters & remains in the second jhana: rapture & pleasure born of composure, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation — internal assurance. With the fading of rapture, he remains equanimous, mindful, & alert, and senses pleasure with the body. He enters & remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones declare, 'Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasant abiding.' With the abandoning of pleasure & pain — as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress — he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. This is called the faculty of concentration.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....010.than.html "Let go" = "vossaga" = "relinquishment"

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