ainful practice and slow intuition (see AN 4:162). These modes of practice donât go twice to the further shore in the sense that each of the four paths—to stream-entry, once-returning, non-returning, and arahantship—abandons whatever defilements it is capable of abandoning once and for all. There is no need to repeat that particular path. Unbinding is not attained only once in the sense that it is touched as the result of each of the four paths. 4. SnA: the stream of defilements. However, the stream here could also be the stream of becoming mentioned in Sn 3:12. 5. See Sn 2:2. 6. This verse is quoted in the Milinda Paā±hṅ. See also: AN 3:123; Dhp 268–269; Iti 66–67; Sn 1:12 - --> - - - -