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How is the Understanding Ability Outstanding?

With the development of the Ability of Understanding, Enthusiasm
arises, with the elimination of all Skeptical Doubt, Enthusiasm also
arises, with the fading of the frustration inherent in all Skeptical
Doubt, Enthusiasm arises, with the eradication of all fixed mental
obstructions linked with wrong view, Enthusiasm arises, with the
removal of the gross mental obstructions, Enthusiasm arises, with
the dying out of subtle mental obstructions, Enthusiasm also arises,
with extinction of all mental obstructions, Enthusiasm arises as a
Thunderbolt!!! When through this hilarious & energetic Enthusiasm,
gladness arises, then the Ability of Understanding is outstanding as
Understanding due to Gladness... When through gladness, happiness
arises, then the Ability of Understanding is indeed outstanding as
Understanding due to Happiness...When via happiness, tranquillity
emerges, then the Ability of Understanding is outstanding due to
calmed & stilled Tranquillity... When tranquil, sweet pleasure arises,
then the Understanding Ability is outstanding as Understanding due
to Pleasure... When through pleasure illumination arises, then this
Ability of Understanding is outstanding as Understanding due to
Illumination... When through revealing illumination sense of urgency
arises, then this single Understanding Ability is outstanding as
Understanding due to the acute & vivid Sense of Urgency...
When sensing urgency one concentrates mind, then this Ability of
Understanding is outstanding due to absorbed Concentration... 
When one now thoroughly trains the mind thus concentrated, then
this Ability of Understanding is outstanding as Understanding due
to Effort. When one looks on with complete equanimity at mind thus
wielded into solid focus, then this unique Ability of Understanding
is outstanding as Understanding due to Equanimity. When as a prime
result of equanimity, mind is liberated from many kinds of mental
obstructions, then the Understanding Ability is outstanding as
Understanding due to Liberation. When mind is all liberated, this
mentally unified state come to have a single function and taste,
then the Understanding Ability is outstanding as Understanding
due to development of single function & taste. When mind is being
cultivated and refined, it therefore turns away to what is superior,
namely towards Nibbana, then verily this Ability to Understand is
outstanding as Understanding due to Turning Away. When because
of mind remains turned away, then one is now possessed of the Path.
When one, as a consequence, relinquishes both mental obstructions
and all clusters of clinging, then Ability of Understanding is quite
outstanding as Understanding due to Relinquishment. When due to
mental release, the mental obstructions and the clusters of clinging
therefore cease with no re-arising trace remaining, then the Ability
of Understanding is outstanding as Understanding due to Ceasing...

More on the supreme Understanding Ability:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Chief_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/pannaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Right_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Supreme_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Revealing_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Understanding.htm

Source: Sariputta - The General of the Dhamma -
The Canonical: Path of Discrimination: Patisambhidamagga. IV.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=133494


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