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Dear Pante, I am seeking to understand the state of mind of an arhat.

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Is it a state of knowing everything about reality, or can a subset about reality that could vary from person to person?

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What would be the lowest common denominator?

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An Arahant is not someone who knows everything.

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A fully enlightened Buddha is someone who has unobstructed knowledge.

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So it's kind of like knowing everything, except it's knowing whatever you want to know.

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So apparently the Buddha was able to find an answer to every question that he posed, every question that was posed to him.

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Any knowledge that was required, there was an unobstructed access to it.

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But for an arahant, that's not the case.

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In fact, a better point is that no one can know everything, because knowing everything implies knowing two things at once.

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You can never know more than one thing.

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But the Buddha had unobstructed knowledge.

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An Arahant only knows four things and that's the Four Noble Truths.

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They have the realization of the Four Noble Truths.

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More importantly, they know enough to free themselves from suffering.

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An Arahant has to let go of everything.

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Only a Buddha has to know everything.