The Five Spiritual Faculties

By Bodhi, Bhikkhu, Venerable

Book Id: WPLBN0000705013
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Five Spiritual Faculties
Author:	Bodhi, Bhikkhu, Venerable
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
Collections:	Buddhist Literature Collection, BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network
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Publisher:	Buddhanet: Buddhist Information and Education Network


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bhikkhu Bodhi, B. V. (n.d.). The Five Spiritual Faculties. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

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Excerpt: The practice of the Buddha's teaching is most commonly depicted by the image of a journey, the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path constituting the royal roadway along which the disciple must travel. The Buddhist scriptures, however, illustrate the quest for liberation in a variety of other ways, each of which throws a different spotlight on the nature of the practice. Although the alternative formulations inevitably draw upon the same basic set of mental factors as those that enter into the eightfold path, they structure these factors around a different root metaphor -- an image which evokes its own particular range of associations and highlights different aspects of the endeavor to reach the cessation of suffering