Friends:
How are there Fourteen Links to Awakening?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
There is
Awareness of all internal states and
Awareness of all external states.
Both kinds of
Awareness are links leading to Enlightenment
(sati-sambojjhanga).
There is
Investigation of all internal states and
Investigation of all external states.
Both kinds of
Investigation are links leading to Enlightenment
(vicaya-sambojjhanga).
There is
Energy of body (vigour & strength) and
Energy of the mind (keen enthusiasm).
Both kinds of
Energy are links leading to Enlightenment (viriya-sambojjhanga).
There is rapturous
Joy associated with thinking and there is
Joy without any thinking.
Both kinds of
Joy are links leading to Enlightenment (pīti-sambojjhanga).
There is calm Tranquillity of the body and
there is serene
Tranquillity of the mind.
Both kinds of
Tranquillity are links leading to Enlightenment
(passaddhi-sambojjhanga).
There is
Concentration associated with thinking and
Concentration without any thinking.
Both kinds of
Concentration are links leading to Enlightenment
(samādhi-sambojjhanga).
There is
Equanimity regarding internal states and
Equanimity regarding external states.
Both kinds of
Equanimity are links leading to Enlightenment
(upekkhā-sambojjhanga).
This can only a Buddha or a true disciple of a Buddha see, understand and explain...
Comments:
Awareness of all internal (mental) states
is the most important, best and highest.
Investigation
of all internal (mental) states is the primary, most fruitful & hardest.
Energy of the mind is the most advantageous,
effective, capable and forceful.
Joy without any thinking is the most rapturous,
ecstatic, elevating and all-pervading.
Tranquillity of the mind is the deepest, most
calm, serene, still and imperturbable.
Concentration without any thinking is the most
focused, one-pointed and absorbed.
Equanimity regarding internal (mental) states
is the best ballance and protection.
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
Sources (edited extracts):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
111] 46: Links. 52: A way of Explaining...
