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Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
Right View: our actions have consequences, death is not the end, and our actions and beliefs have consequences after death. The Buddha followed and taught a successful path out of this world and the other world. Later on, right view came to explicitly include karma and rebirth, and the importance of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist soteriology.
Right Resolve or Intention: the giving up home and adopting the life of a religious mendicant in order to follow the path; this concept aims at peaceful renunciation, into an environment of non-sensuality, non-ill-will. Such an environment aids contemplation of impermanence, suffering, and non-Self.
Right Speech: no lying, no rude speech, no telling one person what another says about him to cause discord or harm their relationship.
Right Conduct or Action: refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct
Right Livelihood: Gaining one's livelihood by benefiting others also not selling weapons, poisons or intoxicants
Right Effort: preventing the arising of unwholesome states, and generating wholesome states. This includes indriya-samvara, "guarding the sense-doors," restraint of the sense faculties.
Right Mindfulness: "retention," being mindful of the dhammas that are beneficial to the Buddhist path. In the vipassana movement, sati is interpreted as "bare attention": never be absent minded, being conscious of what one is doing;[38] this encourages the awareness of the impermanence of body, feeling and mind, as well as to experience the five aggregates, the five hindrances, the four True Realities and seven factors of awakening.
Right samadhi: practicing four stages of dhyāna/meditation, which includes samadhi proper in the second stage, and reinforces the development of the bojjhagā, culminating into equanimity and mindfulness. In the Theravada tradition and the Vipassana movement, this is interpreted as ekaggata, concentration or one-pointedness of the mind, and supplemented with Vipassana-meditation, which aims at insight.
Right View: our actions have consequences, death is not the end, and our actions and beliefs have consequences after death. The Buddha followed and taught a successful path out of this world and the other world. Later on, right view came to explicitly include karma and rebirth, and the importance of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist soteriology.
Right Resolve or Intention: the giving up home and adopting the life of a religious mendicant in order to follow the path; this concept aims at peaceful renunciation, into an environment of non-sensuality, non-ill-will. Such an environment aids contemplation of impermanence, suffering, and non-Self.
Right Speech: no lying, no rude speech, no telling one person what another says about him to cause discord or harm their relationship.
Right Conduct or Action: refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct
Right Livelihood: Gaining one's livelihood by benefiting others also not selling weapons, poisons or intoxicants
Right Effort: preventing the arising of unwholesome states, and generating wholesome states. This includes indriya-samvara, "guarding the sense-doors," restraint of the sense faculties.
Right Mindfulness: "retention," being mindful of the dhammas that are beneficial to the Buddhist path. In the vipassana movement, sati is interpreted as "bare attention": never be absent minded, being conscious of what one is doing;[38] this encourages the awareness of the impermanence of body, feeling and mind, as well as to experience the five aggregates, the five hindrances, the four True Realities and seven factors of awakening.
Right samadhi: practicing four stages of dhyāna/meditation, which includes samadhi proper in the second stage, and reinforces the development of the bojjhagā, culminating into equanimity and mindfulness. In the Theravada tradition and the Vipassana movement, this is interpreted as ekaggata, concentration or one-pointedness of the mind, and supplemented with Vipassana-meditation, which aims at insight.
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