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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