Friends:
How does the 7
Links to Awakening induce
Perforating Penetration?
The Blessed Buddha once
said:
And what, bhikkhus, is
the way that induce
penetration?
It is:
The Seven Links to
Awakening! What
seven?
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.
Then, the Venerable Udayi
asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, how are the
Seven Links to Awakening
developed & cultivated so
that
they lead to, and induce
penetration?
Udayi, when a Bhikkhu
develops
the Seven Links to Awakening
supported by seclusion,
disillusion, and ceasing,
culminating in a mental
release; which is vast,
exalted, & infinite,
without any trace of ill
will. With such a mind
matured and refined by
these Seven Links
to Awakening, he
penetrates, smashes &
eliminates the mass of greed
that he has never
before penetrated, smashed &
eliminated; he penetrates,
demolishes & eradicates the
heap of hate that he has
never before penetrated,
demolished & eradicated; and
he
penetrates, disintegrates
and disperses the
accumulation of confusion
that he has never
before penetrated,
disintegrated and
dispersed....
It is, Udayi, when
these Seven Links to
Awakening are
developed & cultivated in
exactly
this way that they lead to
incisive penetration...
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:
87-88]
section 46: The
Links.28:
Leading to
Penetration...
