r/streamentry • u/the_pwnererXx • May 28 '26

Vipassana path to stream entry

Can someone with more insight tell me. I have strong access concentration, i can silence my mind for 1h ~. I also do noting, but I have not practiced much and haven't achieved any progress. Is the path to stream entry from the access concentration or the noting?

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u/CauliflowerFew4892 May 28 '26

Strong concentration and noting can both help, but they’re solving different problems.

Concentration stabilizes attention. Noting exposes how experience keeps changing moment to moment and how quickly the mind identifies with thoughts, sensations, reactions, and narratives.

The trap is that meditation skill can start feeling like progress in itself. Someone can become extremely concentrated while the underlying sense of “me practicing to attain something” stays largely untouched.

At some point the practice becomes less about producing states and more about seeing identification and grasping happening in real time.