Friends:
How do
the 7 Links to Awakening
lead to Enlightenment?
Then a certain not very
well known Bhikkhu
approached the Blessed
Buddha and
asked: Venerable Sir,
'The 7 Links to
Awakening, The Links to
Awakening' is it
always said. In what way
are they called Links to
Awakening?
They lead to
Enlightenment, friend,
therefore are they
called
Links to
Awakening.
Here, Bhikkhu, when one
develops, trains,
cultivates and refines:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening:
sati-sambojjhanga.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening:
dhammavicaya-sambojjhanga.
3: The Energy Link
to Awakening:
viriya-sambojjhanga.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening:
pīti-sambojjhanga.
5: The Tranquillity Link
to Awakening:
passaddhi-sambojjhanga.
6:
The Concentration Link to Awakening:
samādhi-sambojjhanga.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening:
upekkhā-sambojjhanga.
based upon seclusion,
disillusion, and
ceasing, maturing &
culminating in release,
then these
Seven Links to Awakening,
becomes Noble and
liberating. They lead
any one who trains them
all out, they lead to
utter revulsion, to
intense disgust,
to dispassion, to
cessation of craving and
greed, to peace, to
direct knowledge,
to complete destruction
of suffering. They lead
to Enlightenment, to
Nibbāna...
On the 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
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Meaning_of_the-7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
Source (edited
extract):
The Grouped
Sayings of the
Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
82-83]
section 46: The
Links.19-21:
Noble Revulsion
leads to
Enlightenment....
