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How the 7 Links to Awakening induce Perforating Penetration?

The Blessed Buddha once said: And what, bhikkhus, is the way that induce penetration? It is: 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.

Then, the Venerable Udayi asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir, how are the Seven Links to Awakening developed & cultivated so that they lead to, and induce penetration? Udayi, when a Bhikkhu develops the Seven Links to Awakening supported by seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing, culminating in a mental release; which is vast, exalted, & infinite, without any trace of ill will. With such a mind matured and refined by these Seven Links to Awakening, he penetrates, smashes & eliminates the mass of greed that he has never before penetrated, smashed & eliminated; he penetrates, demolishes & eradicates the heap of hate that he has never before penetrated, demolished & eradicated; and he penetrates, disintegrates and disperses the accumulation of confusion that he has never before penetrated, disintegrated and dispersed.... It is, Udayi, when these Seven Links to Awakening are developed & cultivated in exactlythis way that they lead to incisive penetration...

 

 

 

Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 87-88] section 46: The Links.28: Leading to Penetration...

 

 

 

 

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