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4 views

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...