How are the 7 Links
leading to Awakening?
Venerable
Sāriputta
once explained:
They conduce and lead to the state of enlightenment; in this sense are
they
links to awakening! They are in, of and by themselves enlightening;
also in
this sense are they indeed links to awakening!
Establishing as the meaning of
Awareness
has to be directly experienced.
Examination as the meaning of
Investigation has to be directly experienced.
Exertion of Effort as the meaning of
Energy
has to be directly experienced.
Intense Contentment as the meaning of
Joy
has to be directly experienced.
Stilled Peace as the meaning of
Tranquillity has to be directly experienced.
Non-Distraction as the meaning of
Concentration has to be directly experienced.
Even Ballance as the meaning of
Equanimity
has to be directly experienced.
They are enlightening as a root, thus are they links to awakening.
They are enlightening as a cause, thus are they links to awakening.
They are enlightening as a requisite, thus are they links to
awakening.
They are enlightening as a purification, thus are they links to
awakening.
They are enlightening as blamelessness, thus are they links to
awakening.
They are enlightening as withdrawal exit, thus are they links to
awakening.
They are enlightening as delivering freedom, thus are they links to
awakening.
They are enlightening as lack of fermentation, thus are they links to
awakening.
They are enlightening as silent solitary seclusion, thus are they
links to awakening.
They are enlightening as a releasing relinquishment, thus are they
links to awakening.
On these 7 Links to
Awakening (Sambojjhanga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Cause_of_Knowledge_and_Vision.htm
Source (edited extract):
Sāriputta
Path of Discrimination:
Patisambhidamagga.
Treatise on the Links to Awakening XIII.
The Meaning of the 7 links?
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