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What are the Fruits of the 5 Mental Abilities?

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities. What five?

The ability of Faith (saddhā)
The ability of Energy (viriya)
The ability of Awareness (sati)
The ability of Concentration (samādhi)
The ability of Understanding (pañña)

These are the five abilities.

It is, Bhikkhus, because he has developed and cultivated these 5 abilities, that a Bhikkhu, by the destruction of the fermentations, in this very life enters and dwells in the stainless liberation of mind, released by wisdom, realizing it for himself with direct experience and complete understanding!

Comments:

The 4 mental fermentations are wrong, false & hidden assumptions associated with:
1: Sense-desire (kāmāsava). Ex: "Sensing is only and always pleasant. Pain doesn't exist!"
2: Desiring becoming into new existence (bhavāsava): Ex: "All life is good. Death doesn't exist!"
3: Wrong views (ditthāsava): Ex: "I am better, know better and what I think is never wrong!"
4: Ignorance (avijjāsava): Ex: "Suffering, craving, ending craving & the Noble Way don't exist!"

All beings can train their mental abilities!
For Details on the 3 or 4 Mental Fermentations (āsava) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm

Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 203] 48 The Mental Abilities: 20 Fermentation free..
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