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Friends:
1: The impermanence of all
constructions is perfectly seen & comprehended.
2: The torture & addiction of all sense-desire is perfectly perceived &
known.
3: His mind is only inclined towards solitude, seclusion and detached
ease.
4: The Four Foundations of Awareness are continually & perfectly
established.
5: The Five Mental Abilities & Powers are perfectly developed &
consummated.
6: The Seven Links to Awakening are perfectly refined and fully completed.
7: The Noble Eightfold Way is perfectly realized, accomplished &
concluded.
By these 7 criteria, he clearly & invariably recognizes that for him has
the
mental fermentations associated with Sense-Desire, with Becoming, and with
Ignorance been completely & irreversibly eliminated. Cut of at the root
and
like a palm tree stump never to grow again...
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the
Buddha. Digha Nikaya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
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