Friends:
Good Friendship is the Seed of the 7 Links to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, just as dawn is the forerunner and precursor of the rising of the
Sun,
even & exactly so too, for any Bhikkhu is Good & Noble Friendship the
forerunner
and precursor of the emergence of the Seven Links to Awakening...!!!
When a Bhikkhu has a Good & Noble Friend, it is to be expected that he will
develop
and cultivate these Seven Links to Awakening. And how does a Bhikkhu who
indeed
has a Good & Noble Friend develop and cultivate the Seven Links to Awakening?
Here, friends, this Bhikkhu trains, develops, deepens, reinforces 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, ceasing of craving, & gradually
culminating in release,
It is in exactly this way that any Bhikkhu, who has a Good & Noble Friend,
truly trains,
develops, deepens, intensifies, reinforces & refines the Seven Links to
Awakening...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 101] section 46: The Links.48: The Sun....
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Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
Friendship is the Greatest ...
Let there be Calm & Free Bliss !!!
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