The Noble Eightfold Path 1) Right View seeing the four truths 2) Right Intention desirelessness friendliness compassion 3) Right Speech refraining from false speech refraining from divisive speech refraining from hurtful speech refraining from idel chatter 4) Right Action refraining from harming living beings refraining from taking what is not given refraining from sexual misconduct 5) Right Livelihood not based on wrong speech and action 6) Right Effort to prevent unarisen unwholesome states to abandon arisen unwholesome states to arouse unarisen wholesome states to develop arisen wholesome states 7) Right Mindfulness contemplation of body contemplation of feeling contemplation of mind contemplation of dharma 8) Right Concentration practice of four "dhyanas" (As explained by Rupert Gethin in (1998) "The Foundations of Buddhism" Oxford: Opus Press.) |
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