Saṃyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses – page 14
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SN 45.166: Kinds of Barrenness
SN 45.167: Stains
SN 45.168: Troubles
SN 45.169: Feelings
SN 45.170: Craving
Develop the eightfold path to abandon the three cravings. This sutta is doubled by replacing <i lang='pi' translate='no'>taṇhā</i> with another form of the same word, <i lang='pi' translate='no'>tasina</i>. This variation is found in Burmese but not Sinhalese manuscripts.
SN 45.171: Floods
SN 45.172: Yokes
SN 45.173: Grasping
SN 45.174: Personal Ties
SN 45.175: Tendencies
SN 45.176: Kinds of Sensual Stimulation
SN 45.177: Hindrances
SN 45.178: Grasping Aggregates
SN 45.179: Lower Fetters
SN 45.180: Higher Fetters
SN 46.1: The Himalaya
Dragons nurture their strength in the Himalayas, then enter the rivers and reach the ocean. So too, a mendicant nurtures ethics and then develops the seven awakening factors.
SN 46.2: The Body
Just as the body depends on food, the awakening factors depend on nutriment. The Buddha gives specific conditions for each of the factors.
SN 46.3: Ethics
Here the awakening factors are described in the context of hearing the teachings and reflecting on them. This leads to full enlightenment, or at least to some lesser attainment.
SN 46.4: Clothes
The various awakening factors can be donned at different times of the day, like a man who puts on bright colored clothes whenever he wants.
SN 46.5: A Monk
They’re called awakening factors because they lead to awakening.
SN 46.6: Kuṇḍaliya
The wanderer Kuṇḍaliya points out that some ascetics argue for the sake of winning debates. But the Buddha says his path is for the sake of liberation. Kuṇḍaliya asks what leads to liberation, and the Buddha traces a sequence of conditions back to sense restraint.
SN 46.7: A Bungalow
The awakening factors lead to extinguishment, like rafters holding up the roof peak.
SN 46.8: With Upavāṇa
Sāriputta asks Upavāṇa how one can reflect and see the awakening factors in oneself.
SN 46.9: Arisen (1st)
The awakening factors do not arise apart from a Realized One.
SN 46.10: Arisen (2nd)
The awakening factors do not arise apart from a Holy One’s training.
SN 46.11: Living Creatures
Just as living creatures are based on the earth, the awakening factors are based on ethics.
SN 46.12: The Simile of the Sun (1st)
Just as the dawn precedes the sun, good friendship precedes the awakening factors.
SN 46.13: The Simile of the Sun (2nd)
Just as the dawn precedes the sun, proper attention precedes the awakening factors.
SN 46.14: Sick (1st)
When Mahākassapa was sick, the Buddha taught him the awakening factors, inspiring him to a swift recovery.
SN 46.15: Sick (2nd)
When Mahāmoggallāna was sick, the Buddha taught him the awakening factors, inspiring him to a swift recovery.
SN 46.16: Sick (3rd)
When the Buddha was sick, Mahācunda taught him the awakening factors, inspiring him to a swift recovery.
SN 46.17: Going to the Far Shore
The awakening factors lead from the near to the far shore.
SN 46.18: Missed Out
Those who neglect the awakening factors neglect the path to the end of suffering.
SN 46.19: Noble
The awakening factors are noble and emancipating.
SN 46.20: Disillusionment
The awakening factors lead to disenchantment.
SN 46.21: To Awakening
They’re called awakening factors because they lead to awakening.
SN 46.22: A Teaching on the Awakening Factors
A simple statement on the awakening factors.
SN 46.23: Grounds
Frequently focusing on things tends to promote similar qualities, whether good (awakening factors) or bad (hindrances).
SN 46.24: Irrational Application of Mind
Improper attention grows the hindrances, proper attention grows the awakening factors.
SN 46.25: Non-decline
The awakening factors lead to non-decline.
SN 46.26: The Ending of Craving
The awakening factors lead to the ending of craving.
SN 46.27: The Cessation of Craving
The awakening factors lead to the cessation of craving.
SN 46.28: Helping Penetration
The awakening factors partake of penetration.
SN 46.29: One Thing
Nothing is as effective for getting rid of fetters as the awakening factors.
SN 46.30: With Udāyī
Venerable Udāyı̄ celebrates his progress on the path, gaining faith as a householder, going forth, and realizing the Dhamma. Now he develops the awakening factors for the end of suffering.
SN 46.31: Skillful (1st)
Skillful qualities are rooted in diligence, which promotes the awakening factors.
SN 46.32: Skillful (2nd)
Skillful qualities are rooted in proper attention, which promotes the awakening factors.
SN 46.33: Corruptions
Hindrances sully the mind like impurities in gold.
SN 46.34: Not Corruptions
Awakening factors purify the mind and lead to liberation.
SN 46.35: Irrational Application of Mind
Improper attention promotes the hindrances; proper attention promotes the awakening factors.
SN 46.36: Growth
The awakening factors lead to growth and non-decline.
SN 46.37: Obstacles
Hindrances sully the mind, awakening factors purify it.
SN 46.38: Without Obstacles
Listening to the teaching, the hindrances are given up and the awakening factors developed.
SN 46.39: Trees
As some large trees with small seeds will overgrow and ruin other trees, so the hindrances overgrow and ruin the mind.
SN 46.40: Hindrances
The hindrances cause blindness, the awakening factors cause vision.
SN 46.41: Discriminations
Anyone who abandons the three kinds of discrimination does so due to the awakening factors.
SN 46.42: A Wheel-Turning Monarch
As the Wheel-turning Monarch manifests seven treasures, the Realized One manifests the seven awakening factors.
SN 46.43: About Māra
The awakening factors crush Māra’s army.
SN 46.44: Witless
A stupid person has not developed the awakening factors.
SN 46.45: Wise
A wise person has developed the awakening factors.
SN 46.46: Poor
A person who has not developed the awakening factors is called “poor”.
SN 46.47: Prosperous
A person who has developed the awakening factors is called “prosperous”.
SN 46.48: The Sun
As the dawn precedes the sunrise, so too good friendship precedes the awakening factors.
SN 46.49: Interior
No internal factor helps the awakening factors so much as proper attention.
SN 46.50: Exterior
No external factor helps the awakening factors so much as good friendship.
SN 46.51: Nourishing
The Buddha spells out in detail the factors that nourish the hindrances, and those that nourish the awakening factors.
SN 46.52: Is There a Way?
Some wanderers tell some Buddhist mendicants that they, too, teach the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors, so what is the difference? The Buddha explains by giving a detailed analytical treatment that he says is beyond the scope of the wanderers.
SN 46.53: Fire
Which awakening factors should be developed when the mind is tired, and which when it is energetic? And what is always useful?
SN 46.54: Full of Love
Some wanderers tell some Buddhist mendicants that they, too, teach the five hindrances and the four Brahmā meditations, so what is the difference? The Buddha explains the detailed connection between the Brahmā meditations and the awakening factors, which taken together lead to liberation.
SN 46.55: With Saṅgārava
The brahmin Saṅgārava asks why sometimes verses stay in memory while other times they don’t. The Buddha replies that it is due to the presence of either the hindrances of awakening factors. He gives a set of similes illustrating each of the hindrances with different bowls of water.
SN 46.56: With Prince Abhaya
Prince Abhaya reports Pūraṇa Kassapa’s view that there is no cause for ignorance or knowledge, and asks the Buddha’s opinion. The Buddha replies that the cause of ignorance is the hindrances, and the cause of knowledge is the awakening factors.
SN 46.57: A Skeleton
A series of passages on the benefits of meditating on a skeleton. Some editions treat the sections as separate suttas.