Friends:
The Seven Qualities of an Arahat
For
any fully awakened
Arahat:
1: The impermanence of all constructions is perfectly seen and
comprehended.
2: The addiction and torture of all sense-desires is perfectly perceived &
known..
3: His mind is only inclined towards solitude, seclusion, silent ease, and
Peace...
4: The
Four
Foundations of Awareness are continually & perfectly
established...
5: The
Five
Mental Abilities & Powers are thoroughly developed &
consummated...
6: The
Seven
Links to Awakening are utterly refined and fully
accomplished...
7: The
Noble
Eightfold Way is perfectly realized, acquired and all
concluded...
By these 7 criteria, he clearly and invariably recognizes, that for him,
has the
mental fermentations associated with Sense-Desire,
joined with Becoming,
and grounded in Ignorance been completely and irreversibly eliminated!
Cut of at the root and like a palm tree stump never ever to grow again...
The mission is completed. Done is what was to be done. No more of this...
More on what those gone to the end, have perfected:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ay/arahat.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Perfectly_Enlightened.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_among_Gods_and_Men.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Five_Abilities_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
 
Source: The Exhaustive
Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikāya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
The 7 Arahat Qualities!
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