Leading to Enlightenment ... !!!

June 30, 2006

Friends:

How do the 7 Links to Awakening lead to Enlightenment?

Then a certain not very well known Bhikkhu approached the Blessed Buddha and asked: Venerable Sir, 'The 7 Links to Awakening, The Links to Awakening' is italways said. In what way are they called Links to Awakening?They lead to Enlightenment, friend, therefore are they called links to Awakening.Here, Bhikkhu, when one develops, trains, cultivates and refines:

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.

based upon seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing, maturing & culminating in release,then these Seven Links to Awakening, becomes Noble and liberating. They lead any one who trains them all out, they lead to utter revulsion, to intense disgust,to dispassion, to cessation of craving and greed, to peace, to direct knowledge,to complete destruction of suffering. They lead to Enlightenment, to Nibbāna...

Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 82-83] section 46: The Links.19-21: Noble Revulsion leads to Enlightenment....

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