Friends:
What are the Fruits of the 5 Mental Abilities?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities. What five?
The ability of Faith
(saddhā)
The ability of Energy
(viriya)
The ability of Awareness (sati)
The ability of Concentration (samādhi)
The ability of Understanding (pañña)
These are the five abilities.
It is, Bhikkhus, because he has developed & cultivated these 5
abilities,
that a Bhikkhu, by the destruction of the
fermentations,
in this very life
enters and dwells in the stainless liberation of mind,
released by wisdom,
realizing it for himself with direct experience and knowledge!
Comments:
The
4 mental fermentations are wrong, false & hidden assumptions associated
with:
1: Sense-desire (kāmāsava). Ex: "Sensing is only & always pleasant.
Pain exists not!"
2: Desiring becoming into new existence (bhavāsava): Ex: "All life
is good, Death exists not!"
3: Wrong views (ditthāsava): Ex: "I am better, know better & what
I think is thus never wrong!"
4: Ignorance (avijjāsava): Ex: "Suffering, craving, ending craving
& the Noble Way exists not!"
Mihintale, Sri Lanka.
For Details on the 3
or 4 Mental Fermentations (āsava) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Uprooting_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_VI.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
Source of reference
(edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
203] 48 The Mental Abilities: 20 Fermentation free..
Which ability uproots all mental Fermentation?
