Freeing from Addiction are the
7 Links to Awakening:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, I do not see even one
other single thing that, when
developed and cultivated,
leads to the
elimination
of the
things that
bind, so
effectively
and quickly as these
7 Links to Awakening!
What seven?
1: The
Awareness Link to Awakening.
2: The
Investigation Link to
Awakening.
3: The
Energy Link to Awakening.
4: The
Joy Link to Awakening.
5: The
Tranquillity to Awakening.
6: The
Concentration Link to
Awakening.
7: The
Equanimity Link to
Awakening.
How, Bhikkhus, are
7 Links to Awakening
developed and refined so that
they lead to
the giving up and letting go of
those things that bind?
Here,
when a Bhikkhu develops these
7 links to awakening,
joined with and dependent
upon
seclusion, disillusion, and
ceasing,
culminating in surrender and release, then these
7 links to awakening,
are refined and matured in a way,
so that they lead to the leaving
of the things that
bind, grip, addict and obsess
beings! And what are the
things that bind,
grip, addict
and obsess all beings? The
eye, ear, nose, mouth,
body, and mind are things
that addict
and obsess
beings. Forms, sounds, smells, tastes,
touches, and ideas are things
that addict
and obsess
beings.. Seeing, hearing, smelling,
tasting, touching, and thinking
bind, grip, addict and
obsess
beings!
These are
called the
phenomena that
bind, ensnare,
entrap,
enslave, enchain and consume
beings...
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/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the
Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 88-9] section 46: The
Links. 29: One Thing...
