Connected Discourses 46.17

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1. Linked Discourses 46.17
2. 2. Sick
3. Going to the Far Shore
4. “Mendicants, when these seven awakening factors are developed and cultivated they lead to going from the near shore to the far shore.
5. What seven?
6. The awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion, and equanimity.
7. These seven awakening factors, when developed and cultivated, lead to going from the near shore to the far shore.
8. Few are those among humans
9. who cross to the far shore.
10. The rest just run
11. around on the near shore.
12. When the teaching is well explained,
13. those who practice accordingly
14. are the ones who will cross over
15. Death’s dominion so hard to pass.
16. Rid of dark qualities,
17. an astute person should develop the bright.
18. Leaving home behind
19. for the seclusion so hard to enjoy,
20. you should try to find delight there,
21. having left behind sensual pleasures.
22. Owning nothing, an astute person
23. should cleanse themselves of mental corruptions.
24. And those whose minds are rightly developed
25. in the awakening factors;
26. letting go of attachments,
27. they delight in not grasping.
28. With defilements ended, brilliant,
29. they are quenched in this world.”