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A second confirmed template reuse
Following SN 46.1's own confirmed reuse of SN 45.151's own dragon simile, this discourse confirms the same pattern a second time: the roof-peak image from SN 45.141 reappears here essentially unchanged, only substituting the seven awakening factors for the eightfold path — strengthening the case that this book's own similes form a shared repertoire drawn upon by multiple saṃyuttas, not independently invented for each one.
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§1“Mendicants, the rafters of a bungalow all slant, slope, and incline to the peak. In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. And how does a mendicant who develops the seven awakening factors slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment? It’s when a mendicant develops the awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion, and equanimity, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. That’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”
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