dn22:16.0 4.4. The Awakening Factors
dn22:16.1 Furthermore, a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of principles with respect to the seven awakening factors.
dn22:16.2 And how does a mendicant meditate observing an aspect of principles with respect to the seven awakening factors?
dn22:16.3 It’s when a mendicant who has the awakening factor of mindfulness in them understands: ‘I have the awakening factor of mindfulness in me.’ When they don’t have the awakening factor of mindfulness in them, they understand: ‘I don’t have the awakening factor of mindfulness in me.’ They understand how the awakening factor of mindfulness that has not arisen comes to arise; and how the awakening factor of mindfulness that has arisen becomes fully developed.
dn22:16.4 When they have the awakening factor of investigation of principles …
dn22:16.5 energy …
dn22:16.6 rapture …
dn22:16.7 tranquility …
dn22:16.8 immersion …
dn22:16.9 equanimity in them, they understand: ‘I have the awakening factor of equanimity in me.’ When they don’t have the awakening factor of equanimity in them, they understand: ‘I don’t have the awakening factor of equanimity in me.’ They understand how the awakening factor of equanimity that has not arisen comes to arise; and how the awakening factor of equanimity that has arisen becomes fully developed.
dn22:16.10 And so they meditate observing an aspect of principles internally, externally, and both internally and externally.
dn22:16.11 They meditate observing, with respect to the principles, the liability to originate, to vanish, and to originate and vanish.
dn22:16.12 Or mindfulness is established that principles exist, to the extent necessary for knowledge and mindfulness. They meditate independent, not grasping at anything in the world.
dn22:16.13 That’s how a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of principles with respect to the seven awakening factors.

