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Thirty-seven qualities supporting awakening

This version accounts for all thirty-seven factors. English labels vary by translation, and the grouping is presented as a Buddhist training map.

Complete count

Four foundations, four right efforts, four bases, five faculties, five powers, seven awakening factors and eight path factors total thirty-seven.

Four foundations of mindfulness

  1. Body
  2. Feeling tone
  3. Mind
  4. Phenomena and teaching categories

Four right efforts

  1. Prevent unarisen unwholesome states
  2. Abandon arisen unwholesome states
  3. Develop unarisen wholesome states
  4. Sustain arisen wholesome states

Four bases of accomplishment

  1. Purpose or aspiration
  2. Energy
  3. Collected mind
  4. Investigation

Five faculties

  1. Confidence
  2. Energy
  3. Mindfulness
  4. Concentration
  5. Wisdom

Five Powers

  1. Confidence
  2. Energy
  3. Mindfulness
  4. Concentration
  5. Wisdom

They are called powers when these same qualities have become less vulnerable to their opposing conditions.

Seven factors of awakening

  1. Mindfulness
  2. Investigation
  3. Energy
  4. Joy
  5. Tranquillity
  6. Concentration
  7. Equanimity

Noble Eightfold Path

  1. Right view
  2. Right intention
  3. Right speech
  4. Right action
  5. Right livelihood
  6. Right effort
  7. Right mindfulness
  8. Right concentration

Source note

Dharma Path editorial labels based on the traditional bodhipakkhiyā dhammā grouping. Consult a recognised Nikāya or Āgama translation for textual study.