This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the seven factors of awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, stability of mind, and equanimity. It is the development and balancing of these wholesome factors that set in motion insight and the release from all grasping and stress.
Audio
Satipatthana Sutta Talks 27-35, Joseph Goldstein
General Resources for the study of the seven factors of awakening:
- Seven Factors of Awakening Qualities of mind or heart that lead to Awakening
- The Ordinary and the Seven Factors of Awakening By Gil Fronsdal
- The Seven Factors for Awakening, section in Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s book, Wings to Awakening
- Contemplations on the Seven Factors of Awakening by Ajahn Thiradhammo
- Passage on the Scope of the Practice from Wings to Awakening by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, p. 161
- SN 46.51, Ahara Sutta: Food (For the Factors for Awakening) translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Resources by Each Factor
Concentration
No Resources
Energy
Joyful Effort by Christina Feldman from Insight Journal
Sayadaw U Tejaniya on Effort from his book, When Awareness Becomes Natural
Viriya: Courageous Energy, a talk by Joseph Goldstein from annual 3-month at IMS retreat
Earthworm Practice by Ajahn Passano
Effort by Bhante Gunaratana
Joy in Effort by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Single-Minded Determination by Thanissaro Bhikku
Equanimity
Investigation
The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening by Santikaro Bhikkhu, Insight Journal, Fall 2000
The Wise Investigator by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Joy or Rapture
Bathed in the Breath by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Mindfulness
The Buddha’s Teachings on Mindfulness By Gil Fronsdal
What Mindfulness Is (Not), by Andrew Olendzki
Mindfulness Meditation as a Buddhist Practice – by Gil Fronsdal, February 2006
Sati & Samadhi by Venerable Bhikkhu Analayo
Tranquility
No Resources
