← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN46.7Connected Discourses 46.7SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 46.71. MountainsA Bungalow“Mendicants, the rafters of a bungalow all slant, slope, and incline to the peak.In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.And how does a mendicant who develops the seven awakening factors slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?It’s when a mendicant develops the awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion,and equanimity, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.That’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”