Friends:
Venerable Sariputta explains the Seven
Links to Awakening!
Venerable Sariputta once said: Friends!
Friend; the Bhikkhus replied. Venerable Sariputta then explained this:
Friends, there are these 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.
These are the Seven Links to Awakening.
In whichever of these Seven Links to Awakening,
I wish to dwell in the morning,
in that I abide in the morning; in whichever I wish to dwell at noon, in that I
abide
at noon; in whichever I wish to dwell in the evening, in that I abide in the
evening...
Suppose a king or a minister had a cupboard full of clothes of many various
colours,
then whichever pair of clothes he wished to put on in the morning, that he would
put
on in the morning; whichever clothes he wished to put on at noon, that he would
put
on at noon; & whichever clothes he wished to put on in the evening, that he
would put
on in the evening: so too, in whichever of these
Seven Links to Awakening, I wish to
abide in for whatever period, in that indeed I easily abide dwelling fully
absorbed...
If it occurs to me that now there is The Awareness Link to Awakening present in me,
then it occurs to me that it is measureless, & it occurs to me that it is well
established;
and while it is remaining I know that it remains; and if it falls away in me,
then I know
that it falls away caused by this or that specific condition & definable
circumstance!
So too with the other
six links to awakening.
I note & know their presence & ceasing.
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 70-1]
section 46: The Links.4: The Clothes...