A Confident Stream Entry

Monks, the eye is impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise. The ear is impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise. The nose is impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise. The tongue is impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise. The body is impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise. The mind is impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise.

One who places confidence in these Teachings and persistent in them thus is called a “Confident Stream Entry”, one who has entered the fixed course of rightness, entered the plane of wholesome persons, transcended the plane of the worldlings.

He is incapable of doing any deed by reason of which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal realm, or in the realm of afflicted spirits; he is incapable of passing away without having realized the fruit of Stream-Entry.

A Teachings Stream Entry

One for whom these Teachings are understood thus after being pondered to a sufficient degree with wisdom is called a “Teachings Stream Entry”, one who has entered the fixed course of rightness, entered the plane of wholesome persons, transcended the plane of the worldlings.

He is incapable of doing any deed by reason of which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal realm, or in the realm of afflicted spirits; he is incapable of passing away without having realized the fruit of Stream-Entry.

(Reference: SN 25.1)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares two (2) ways of entering the “stream”.