Seven Factors of Awakening 1: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy

Date: 2023-02-16 Thursday

For the next two weeks, Feb. 16 and March 2, we’ll be exploring the seven factors of awakening. These seven are aspects of mind we may already be familiar with, but they take on new light, and life, when considered in the context of awakening.

They are:

• Mindfulness (sati, Sanskrit smṛti). To maintain awareness of reality, in particular the teachings (Dhamma).

• Investigation of the nature of reality (dhamma vicaya, Skt. dharmapravicaya).

• Energy (viriya, Skt. vīrya) also determination, effort

• Joy or rapture (pīti, Skt. prīti)

• Relaxation or tranquility (passaddhi, Skt. prashrabdhi) of both body and mind

• Concentration (samādhi) a calm, one-pointed state of mind,[1] or "bringing the buried latencies or samskaras into full view"[2]

• Equanimity (upekkhā, Skt. upekshā). To accept reality as-it-is (yathā-bhuta) without craving or aversion

Click here to listen to or download the talk on the Seattle Insight page.