How do the 7
Links to Awakening induce
Breakthrough?
The Blessed Buddha once
said:
And what,
Bhikkhus, is
the method to induce vast
penetration?
It is these 7 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.
Then, the Venerable
Udāyī
asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, how are these
7 Links to Awakening
developed, and cultivated so
that
they lead up to, and induce
vast penetration?
Udāyī, when a Bhikkhu
develops
the Seven Links to Awakening
supported by seclusion,
supported
by
disillusion,
and
associated
with
ceasing,
then
they culminate in a
mental
release, which is vast,
exalted, and infinite,
without
any
trace of
ill will,
or
opposition.
With such exalted mind
matured & refined by
these 7 Links
to Awakening, he
smashes,
penetrates,
and
eliminates the mass of greed,
that he has never before
penetrated,
smashed,
and
eliminated; he penetrates,
demolishes, and eradicates the
heap of hate,
that he has
never before penetrated,
demolished, and eradicated; and
he penetrates,
disintegrates,
and disperses the
accumulation of confusion,
that he has never before
penetrated,
disintegrated, and dispersed...
It is,
Udāyī, when
these Seven Links to
Awakening are
developed, and cultivated
in
exactly
this way, that they lead to
this incisive
breakthrough of penetration...
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
Source (edited
extract):
The Grouped
Sayings of the
Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
87-88]
section 46: The
Links.28:
Leading to
Penetration...
