Friends
The 7 Fruits of the 7
Links to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once
said:
Bhikkhus, when the
7 Links to
Awakening have been developed, completed
and refined, the winning of the seven fruits is indeed to be expected.
What are the benefits of these
7 fruits?
They are, either:
1: One attains final knowledge early in this very life.
Or:
2: One attains final knowledge at the moment of death. Or:
Having destroyed the
five lower
chains and spontaneously re-arisen;
3: One attains
Nibbāna
in the first half of the life as a
divine
brahma. Or:
4: One attains
Nibbāna
in the second half of the life in these
pure abodes.
Or:
5: One attains
Nibbāna
as a Noble
non-returner
without effort. Or:
6: One attains
Nibbāna
as a Noble
non-returner
with some effort. Or:
7: One is bound upstream, surely heading towards the highest
Akanittha
realm.
When, bhikkhus, these
Seven Links
to Awakening have been thoroughly developed
and cultivated exactly in this way, these seven fruits & benefits may be
expected....
On the 7 Links to Awakening (Sambojjhanga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Cause_of_Knowledge_and_Vision.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Meaning_of_the-7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
On the 31 Planes
of Existence:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:69-70] section 46: The Links.
The 7 Fruits !
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