Inclining, sloping,
and falling towards Enlightenment!
The Blessed Buddha
once said:
Bhikkhus, just as all the rafters in a peaked house slant, slant, slope,
tilt, tend, incline
and veer towards the roof peak, even so, when a bhikkhu begin to
develop and cultivate
the
Seven Links to Awakening,
then he indeed slants, slopes, tilts, tends,
inclines and
veers towards Nibbāna... Why and how is this convergence so? When, friends, a Bhikkhu trains,
develops, expands, consolidates and refines:
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.
based upon seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing,
maturing & culminating in release,
then these
7 Links
to Awakening and the repeated training of them, in and by themselves, make
him slant,
slope, tilt, tend,
veer and incline towards Nibbāna...
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_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
https://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.
[V: 75-6] section
46: The Links. 7: The Peaked House....
