How does the 7
Links to Awakening induce
Breakthrough?
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,
it culminates in a
mental release,
which is vast,
exalted, & infinite,
without any trace of ill
will.
With such exalted mind
matured and refined by
these 7 Links
to Awakening,
he
penetrates, smashes and
eliminates the mass of greed,
that he has never
before penetrated, smashed
and
eliminated; he penetrates,
demolishes and
eradicates the
heap of hate, that he has
never before penetrated,
demolished
and eradicated; and
he penetrates, disintegrates
& disperses the
accumulation
of confusion,
that he has never before
penetrated,
disintegrated &
dispersed...
It is, Udayi, when
these Seven Links to
Awakening are
developed & cultivated
in
exactly
this way, that they lead to
the incisive
breakthrough of 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...
