Sariputta explains the 7
Links to Awakening:
Venerable
Sāriputta once said: Friends!
Friend; the Bhikkhus replied. Venerable
Sāriputta then explained this:
Friends, there are these 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.
These are the Seven Links to Awakening!
In whichever of these
7 Links to Awakening, I wish to dwell in the morning,
in that I abide in the morning; in whichever I wish to dwell at noon, in that
I
abide
at noon; in whichever I wish to dwell in the evening, in that I abide
in the
evening...
Suppose a king or a minister had a cupboard full of clothes
of many various
colours,
then whichever pair of clothes he wished to put on
in the morning, that he would
put
on in the morning; whichever clothes he
wished to put on at noon, that he would
put
on at noon; and whichever clothes
he wished to put on in the evening, that he
would put
on in the evening: so too,
in whichever of these
7 Links to Awakening, I wish to
abide in for whatever
period, in that indeed I easily abide, dwelling fully
absorbed by that aspect...
If it occurs to me that now there is The
Awareness Link to Awakening present
in me,
then it occurs to me that it is measureless, and it occurs to me that it is
well
established;
and while it is remaining I know that it remains; and if it falls
away in me,
then I know instantly that it faded away caused by this or that
specific condition, or definable
circumstance!
So too with the other six links
to awakening.
I notice and know both their presence, ceasing and absence!
Venerable
Sāriputta
Thera
On the 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
Venerable
Sāriputta
Thera
and Venerable
Mahā Moggallāna Thera
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 70-1]
section 46: The Links.4: The Clothes...
