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In The Path of Dhamma (Dhammapada)
Dhammapada verses 360–382 depict the ideal bhikkhu as one who restrains the senses, body, speech, and mind, leading to freedom from suffering. Emphasis is placed on mindfulness, inner joy, collectedness, and self-reliance. Through discipline and reflection, the bhikkhu advances towards the peace of Nibbāna, shining like the moon freed from clouds.
In Middle Length Discourses (Majjhima Nikāya)
The Buddha explains how to completely comprehend the gratification, drawback, and escape in the case of sensual pleasures, form, and felt experience.
The Buddha provides a detailed and rigorous method for examining a Teacher. By discerning the teacher’s mental qualities, through prolonged observation, questioning, and learning directly, one gradually realizes a certain aspect of the teaching and builds unshakeable confidence in both the teacher and the teachings.
The Buddha answers the questions of the reputed brahmin Caṅkī's learned student, who asks the Buddha on how there is preservation of truth, awakening to the truth, final arrival at the truth, and what is most helpful for the final arrival at the truth.
The Buddha expounds the noble right collectedness complete with its supporting conditions, clarifying how the factors of the noble eightfold path give rise to either mundane or supramundane fruits. He shows how right view leads to the sequential development of the path, culminating in right knowledge and right liberation.
The Buddha teaches in detail how to develop mindfulness while breathing in and out through sixteen naturally unfolding steps, showing how their cultivation fulfills the four establishments of mindfulness, which in turn fulfill the seven factors of awakening, culminating in true knowledge and liberation.
In Linked Discourses (Saṃyutta Nikāya)
The Buddha recounts how he attained full awakening by examining the principle of dependent co-arising. He likens this realization to a man discovering an ancient, forgotten city.
An analysis of the four bases of psychic abilities that are endowed with collectedness arising from aspiration, determination, purification of mind, and investigation.