Doubt in the context of the five hindrances?

[cjmacie]

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It would seem so in the description of attaining them in the Anapanasati Sutta. I recall also V. Ganaratana describing such a progression in one of this books.

Though there are six or so parallels of Anapanasati Sutta in the SN, the main one is MN118. So, it would seem you didn’t address my question re your reading of the SN. I’m guessing you didn’t notice them being presented as a progression, that is, from one to the other, step by step.

SN 54, “13 (3) Ananda (1)” appears to go through the satta bojjhaṅgā “coming to fulfilment” in progressive order – establishing one enables establishing the next – identically to MN 118 (other than being directed to “bhikkhus” rather than “Ananda”). Likewise, apparently, the variants in 14, 15, and 16. That is not “step by step”?