Friends:
Based on What do advantageous mental states grow out of the Noble 8-fold Way?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, even as any seed and plant grows, increases, and expands, based upon
the Earth, established
upon the Earth, so too, similarly here, based upon Morality, established upon
Morality, do any Bhikkhu
develop and cultivate the Noble 8-fold Way, and thereby he attains to growth,
to increase, & expansion in all
advantageous states. And how does a Bhikkhu do so? Here, friends, the Bhikkhu
develops:
Right View, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Motivation, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Speech, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Action, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Livelihood, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Effort, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Awareness, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
Right Concentration, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and
culminating in release.
It is in this way, friends, that a Bhikkhu, based upon Morality, established
upon Morality, develops and
cultivates this Noble 8-fold Way, and thereby he attains to growth, to
increase, and to expansion in and
of any advantageous mental state !!!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:46-7] section 45: The Way. 100: Seeds ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
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