What if you don't make stream entry in your Lifetime?
Hi there,
This question has appeared in my mind now multiple times:
If one doesn't succeed with achieving stream entry in this life, was it all in vain?
Of course, if you live and follow the skillful (layman) 8 fold path, you will accumulate, hopefully, a lot af merit for future life's, yet this in itself doesn't really mean much since you are still trapped in the endless cycle of Dhukka.
Further, you can't even know if you will be interested in Buddhism and topics of awakening in the next live(s), or at worst, be reborn in a time where there is no Dhamma at all.
What do you think on this, or are there Buddhist text's that I could read about this topic?