Freeing from
Sense-Addiction are the
Links to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, I do not see even one
other single thing that, when
developed and
cultivated,
leads to the elimination of the
things that bind, so effectively
&
quickly as these
Seven Links to Awakening!
What seven?
1: The
Awareness Link to Awakening.
2: The
Investigation Link to
Awakening.
3: The
Energy Link to Awakening.
4: The
Joy Link to Awakening.
5: The
Tranquillity to Awakening.
6: The
Concentration Link to
Awakening.
7: The
Equanimity Link to
Awakening.
How, Bhikkhus, are
Seven Links to Awakening
developed and refined so that
they lead to
the giving up & letting go of
those things that bind?
Here,
when a Bhikkhu develops these
seven links to awakening,
joined with and
dependent upon
seclusion, disillusion, and
ceasing,
culminating in release, then
these
seven links to awakening,
are refined and matured in a way,
so that they
lead to the
abandoning of the things that
bind, grip, addict and obsess
beings!
And what, Bhikkhus, are the
things that bind, grip, addict
and obsess all beings?
The
eye, ear, nose, mouth,
body, & mind are things that addict & obsess beings!
Form, sound, smell, taste,
touch, & idea are things that addict & obsess
beings!
Seeing, hearing, smelling,
tasting, touching, and thinking
bind, grip, addict and
obsess
beings!
These are called the things that
bind, ensnare, entrap,
enslave,
enchain and consume
beings...
On these 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/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the
Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 88-9] section 46: The
Links. 29: One Thing...
