Friends:
Good Friendship is the Seed of the 7 Links
to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, just as dawn is the forerunner and precursor
of the rising of the Sun,
even & exactly so too, for any Bhikkhu is
Good & Noble Friendship the forerunner
and precursor of the emergence of the
Seven Links to Awakening...!!!
When a Bhikkhu has a Good & Noble Friend, it is to be expected
that he will develop
and cultivate these Seven Links to
Awakening. And how does a Bhikkhu who indeed
has a Good & Noble Friend develop and cultivate the Seven Links
to Awakening?
Here, friends, this Bhikkhu trains, develops, deepens, reinforces
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, ceasing
of craving, & gradually culminating in release,
It is in exactly this way that any Bhikkhu,
who has a Good & Noble Friend, truly trains,
develops, deepens, intensifies, reinforces & refines the
Seven Links to Awakening...
Source edited extract:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
101] section 46: The Links.48: The Sun....
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
