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  What causes mental release through Understanding?

The Blessed Buddha once explained the chain of causal events:
Association with a Great Man completes hearing the True Dhamma..
Hearing the true Dhamma completes Faith, Confidence & Conviction..
Faith, confidence and conviction completes Rational Attention..
Rational attention completes Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension..
Mindfulness & clear comprehension completes Guarding the Senses..
Guarding the senses completes good mental, verbal & bodily Behaviour..
Good modes of action completes the Four Foundations of Awareness..
The 4 foundations of Awareness completes the 7 Links to Awakening..
The 7 links to Awakening completes Mental Release by Understanding...!!!

Details are outlined here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Dhamma_Contemplation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Guarding_the_Sense_Doors.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Guarding_the_Senses.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm

Source: The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: Anguttara Nikaya V 115

Released by Understanding!


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Updated: 18 October 2008 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm