ABSTRACT
As it is presented in the suttanta literature, the enlightenment experience is the result on the one hand of meditational practice (including devotion and study) and on the other of immediate triggering events. Traditionally, these immediate causes are expressed as the two conditions for the arising of the ariya path: teaching of dhamma by someone who has already experienced it (parato ghoso) and appropriate bringing to mind (manasikāra) on the other-the external and internal conditions which combine at an opportune moment. When such a moment arrives, the enlightenment experience can occur quite suddenly.
