3.7.9

Lesson 3.7.9 Ānāpānassatisutta, Part Three: Satta Bojjhaṅge - Perfecting the Seven Factors of Enlightenment

Ānāpānassatisutta will lead you through the thorough research on the important constituents of the thirty-two bodhipakkhiyā dhammā. While lesson 3.7.3 Saṃvarasuttaṃ emphasizes the importance of arduous effort of developing mental qualities and cultivating these seven Factors of Enlightenment (satta bojjhaṅgā), the present lesson quotes a selection of the Ānāpānassatisutta that describes the gradual and systematic step-by-step-training of the Factors of Enlightenment. When all seven factors are cultivated and perfected, the Buddha guarantees that one of seven results and fruits can be expected: final knowledge early in this very life; final knowledge at the time of death; realisation of nibbāna after death in the intermediate state; realisation of nibbāna at the moment of reappearance; one becomes anāgāmi by destroying the five lower fetters without exertion; one becomes anāgāmi by destroying the five lower fetters with exertion or one reaches nibbāna after having passed into the sphere of the akaniṭṭha field.