Friendship is
seeding the 7 links
to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Just as dawn is the forerunner and the precursor
of the rising of the Sun,
exactly so
is good and Noble friendship
for any disciple the forerunner and
the precursor of the mental emergence of the
Seven Links to Awakening!
When a Bhikkhu has a
good and Noble friend, it is to be expected
that he will
develop and cultivate these 7 Links to
Awakening. And how does a Bhikkhu who
has a good & Noble friend develop & cultivate these
7 Links
to Awakening?
Here, friends, this Bhikkhu trains, develops, deepens, reinforces
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, ceasing
of craving, and culminating in release!
It is in exactly
in this way that any Bhikkhu,
who has a good and Noble Friend,
truly trains, grows, intensifies, reinforces & refines these
7 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
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Meaning_of_the-7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
