Tranquillity = Passaddhi

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What is the Tranquillity Link to Awakening?

 

The Tranquillity Link to Awakening (passaddhi-sambojjhanga) has the

characteristic of peace, and the function of stilling, which manifests

as absence of restless trembling. Stillness of feeling, perception and

mental construction is the factor that induces bodily Tranquillity.

Stillness of consciousness itself induces mental Tranquillity.

The proximate cause of Tranquillity is the satisfaction within Joy!

The resulting effect of Tranquillity is the bliss within Happiness!

 

The Buddha once said: What mental fermentations (asava) should be

overcome by development? If a Bhikkhu by careful & rational attention

develops the Tranquillity Link to Awakening based on seclusion, based

on disillusion, based on ceasing, and culminating in cool relinquishment,

then neither can mental fermentation, nor any fever, nor any discontent

ever arise in him. MN2 [i 11]

In one who is joyous, the body becomes calm & the mind becomes calm.

The Tranquillity Link to Awakening emerges right there. He develops it,

& for him it goes to the culmination of its development. MN118 [iii 85]

 

CALMED

Calm is his thought, calm is his speech,

and calm is his deed, who, truly knowing,

is wholly freed, perfectly tranquil and wise.

Dhammapada 96

CONTENT

The one who eliminates discontent, tearing it out

by the roots, utterly cuts it out, such one spontaneously

becomes absorbed in the calm of tranquillity both day & night.

Dhammapada 250

 

COMPOSED

The one who is tranquil in movement, calmed in speech,

stilled in thought, collected & composed, who sees right

through & rejects all allurements of this world, such one

is truly a 'Peaceful One'.

Dhammapada 378

 

 

Further inspirations on the calming & soothing quality of Tranquillity:

Feeding Tranquillity http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm

 

 

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