How are the 7 Links leading to
Awakening?
Venerable
Sāriputta
once explained:
They conduce and lead to the state of enlightenment; in
this sense are they
links to awakening! They are in, of and by themselves
enlightening; also in
this
sense are they indeed links to awakening!
Establishing as the meaning of
Awareness
has to be directly experienced.
Examination as the
meaning of
Investigation
has to be directly experienced.
Exertion of Effort
as the meaning of
Energy
has to be directly experienced.
Intense Contentment
as the meaning of
Joy
has to be directly experienced.
Stilled Peace as the
meaning of
Tranquillity
has to be directly experienced.
Non-Distraction as
the meaning of
Concentration
has to be directly experienced.
Even Ballance as the
meaning of
Equanimity
has to be directly experienced.
They are enlightening as a root, thus are
they links to awakening.
They are enlightening as a cause, thus are
they links to awakening.
They are enlightening as a requisite, thus
are they links to awakening.
They are enlightening
as a purification,
thus are they links to awakening.
They are
enlightening as blamelessness,
thus are they links to awakening.
They are
enlightening as withdrawal exit,
thus are they links to awakening.
They are
enlightening as delivering
freedom, thus are they links to awakening.
They are
enlightening as lack of fermentation, thus are they links to awakening.
They are enlightening as silent solitary
seclusion, thus are they links to awakening.
They
are enlightening as a releasing
relinquishment, thus are they links to awakening.
On these 7 Links to Awakening
(Sambojjhanga):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Cause_of_Knowledge_and_Vision.htm
Source (edited extract):
Sāriputta
Path of
Discrimination:
Patisambhidamagga.
Treatise on the Links to Awakening XIII.
