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Skillful qualities are rooted in diligence, which promotes the awakening factors.
Skillful qualities are rooted in proper attention, which promotes the awakening factors.
Hindrances sully the mind like impurities in gold.
Awakening factors purify the mind and lead to liberation.
Improper attention promotes the hindrances; proper attention promotes the awakening factors.
The awakening factors lead to growth and non-decline.
Hindrances sully the mind, awakening factors purify it.
Listening to the teaching, the hindrances are given up and the awakening factors developed.
As some large trees with small seeds will overgrow and ruin other trees, so the hindrances overgrow and ruin the mind.
The hindrances cause blindness, the awakening factors cause vision.
