Supermundane Dharmas
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supermundane dharmas: They include the
thirty-seven factors of enlightenment [the four applications or foundations of mindfulness (smrty-upasthana),
four right or perfect efforts (samyak-prahana),
four bases of psychic power or roads to power (riddhi-pada),
five roots or controlling factors or dominants (indriya),
five powers (bala),
seven limbs (factors or branches) of enlightenment or awakening (bodhyanga), and the
eight-fold path (marga)] plus the five sciences (vidya),
six superknowledges (abhijna), and
eighteen emptinesses (sunyata).
These plus wholesome (punya) or meritorious actions that are also followed by ordinary beings are the dharmas that are followed by saints or holy ones.
