The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Third Chapter for Recitation
They are as follows: 105
The Four Ways of Attending to Mindfulness, 106
the Four Right Strivings, 107
the Four Paths to Power, 108
the Five Faculties, 109
the Five Strengths, 110
105 These are collectively known as the 37 Things on the Side of Awakening
(Bodhipakkhiyadhammā). They are mentioned in many places, e.g.
Sampasādanīyasuttaṁ (DN 28); Kintisuttaṁ (MN 103); Pahārādasuttaṁ
(AN 8:19), etc. etc.
106 Contemplation of the body (kāyānupassanā), contemplation of feelings
(vedanānupassanā), contemplation of the mind (cittānupassanā), and
contemplation of (the nature of) things (dhammānupassanā). See the text
and translation of the Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasuttaṁ elsewhere on this website.
107 These are the same as the Right Endeavours (Sammāvāyāma, part of the
Eightfold Noble Path). The striving 1. not to take up bad and unwholesome
things that have not yet arisen, 2. to give up bad and unwholesome things
that have already arisen, 3. to take up wholesome things that have not yet
arisen, 4. for the endurance of wholesome things that have arisen.
108 These were explained above Chapter 17. They are concentration of desire
accompanied by the process of striving
(chandasamādhipadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgata); concentration of energy
accompanied by the process of striving (viriya-); concentration of mind
accompanied by the process of striving (citta-), and concentration of
investigation accompanied by the process of striving (vimaṁsa-).
109 Faith (saddhā), energy (viriya), mindfulness (sati), concentration (samādhi),
and wisdom (paññā).
110 The same as the above brought to fulfilment. Faith finds fulfilment in the 4
factors of the Stream-Enterer (Sotāpannaṅgāni), energy in the four Right
Endeavours (Sammāvāyāma), mindfulness in the four ways of attending to
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