The author states, 'If the Tipitaka [is] condensed, and the essentials extracted, the thirty-seven bodhipakkhiya-dhamma (Requisites of Enlightenment) are obtained.... [They] should be practiced with energy and determination by those persons who wish to cultivate Tranquillity and Insight and thus make worthwhile the rare opportunity of rebirth as a human being within the present Buddha Sasana'.
