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If a layperson becomes enlightened, they apparently die within 7 days unless they become a monk. But there is the case of an Arahant monk with severe chronic pain who slit his wrists to die, when for all intents and purposes, he was only monk in name but not in heart. So what's the truth?

by /u/back_to_samadhi in /r/theravada

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