Friends:
Inclining, sloping, bending & falling towards Enlightenment!
The Blessed Buddha
once said:
Bhikkhus, just as all the rafters in a peaked house slant, slant, slope,
tilt, tend,
incline & veer towards the roof peak, even so, when a bhikkhu begin to
develop
and cultivate the Seven Links to Awakening,
then he indeed slants, slopes, tilts,
tends,
inclines & veers towards Nibbāna... Why and how is this convergence so?
When, friends, a Bhikkhu trains, develops, expands, consolidates 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 and the repeated training of them, in & by
themselves, make
him slant, slope, tilt, tend,
veer and incline towards Nibbāna...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book
[V: 75-6] section
46: The Links.7: The Peaked House....
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
