How is
the ability of Faith Outstanding?
With the development of the
ability of faith, enthusiasm arises.
With the
elimination of all skeptical doubt, enthusiasm also arises. With the fading of
the frustration inherent in all skeptical doubt,
enthusiasm indeed also arises.
With extinction of all mental obstructions, enthusiasm
arises as a thunderbolt!
When via this energetic
enthusiasm , gladness arises, then the ability of faith
is outstanding as a happy faith due to gladness... When
through gladness, this
happiness arises, then the ability of faith is outstanding
as due to happiness...
When through happiness tranquillity emerges,
then the ability of faith is quite
outstanding due to this calmed & stilled tranquillity... When tranquil,
a sweet
pleasure arises, then the faith ability is outstanding as
faith due to delight..
When through pleasure illumination
arises, then the ability of faith is indeed
outstanding as faith due to illumination... When
through revealing illumination
a sense of urgency arises, then this single faith ability is outstanding as
faith
due to the acute and vivid sense of
urgency... When sensing urgency one can
concentrate the mind, then this ability of faith is
outstanding as faith due to
concentration...
When one now thoroughly trains the mind thus concentrated,
then this ability of faith is outstanding as faith due to an
increased effort..
When one just looks on with complete equanimity at the mind
thus wielded into
solid focus, then the faith ability is outstanding
as faith due to equanimity.
When as a result of equanimity, the mind is liberated from many kinds of mental
obstructions, then the faith ability
is outstanding as faith due to liberation...
When mind is all
liberated, this mentally unified state come to have a single
function and taste,
then the faith ability is outstanding as faith due to the
emergence of this single
function and taste. When the mind is being cultivated
and thus refined, it
therefore turns away from the primitive to what is superior,
namely towards
Nibbāna,
then the faith ability is outstanding as faith due to
turning away. Then, because of mind remains turned away, one is now possessed
of the path! When one, as a consequence, relinquishes both all mental obstructions
and all clusters of clinging, then the faith ability is
outstanding as faith due to
Relinquishment. When due to mental release,
all the mental obstructions
and the
5 clusters of clinging therefore cease with no re-arising trace
remaining, then the
ability of faith is outstanding as faith
due to complete Ceasing...
For further Faith
(Saddhā) please see:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Buddha_on_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Going_Forth_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unwavering_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Highest_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leaping_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruitful_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Mutual_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fine_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rich_Faith.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm
Source:
Sāriputta
- The
General of the Dhamma -
The Canonical: Path of Discrimination: Patisambhidamagga.
IV.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Path-of-Discrimination-2nd-Edition_p_2126.html
