The Seven to Awakening ... !!!

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Freeing from Sense-Addiction are the Links to Awakening!

The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus, I do not see even one other single thing that, when developed & cultivated, leads to the leaving behind of the things that bind, so effectively & quickly as this: The Seven 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 Seven Links to Awakening developed and refined so that they lead to the giving up & letting go of those things that bind? Here, when a Bhikkhu develops theseseven links to awakening, joined with & dependent upon seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing, culminating in release, then these seven links to awakening, are evolved & matured in a way, so that they lead to the abandoning of the things that bind, grip, addict and obsess beings. And what, Bhikkhus, are the things that bind, grip, addict and obsess all beings? The eye, ear, nose, mouth, body and mind are things that bind, grip, addict & obsess beings!Form, sound, smell, taste, touch & thought are things that bind, grip, addict & obsess beings!Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and thinking bind, grip, addict and obsess beings!These are called the things that bind, ensnares, entrap, enslaves, enchain & consume beings...

 

 

 

Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 88-9] section 46: The Links. 29: One Thing...

 

 

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