NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

RIGHT VIEW

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• The right way of looking at life.
• Gives us guidance for the other seven paths.
• There are two versions of right view: view with taints, or views without taints
• Right View with taints: mundane- earthly
• Right View without taints: supramundane- heavenly, or spiritually.

RIGHT INTENTION

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• The excursion of our own will to change
• Right view will help you know right intention from wrong
• Renunciation of worldly things

RIGHT SPEECH

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• Best use of words
• Abandon:
• False speech
• Abusive speech
• Divisive speech

RIGHT ACTION

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• Training to be morally upright
• Abstaining from:
• Murder
• Stealing
• Sexual misconduct

RIGHT LIVELIHOOD

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• Not engaging in harmful business
• Business that should not be undertaken:
• Weapons trading
• Human trading
• Meat trading

RIGHT EFFORT

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• Abandoning all harmful thoughts
• "Prevent the unwholesome that has not yet arisen in oneself."
• "Let go of the unwholesome that has arisen in oneself."
• "Bring up the wholesome that has not yet arisen in oneself."
• "Maintain the wholesome that has arisen in oneself."

RIGHT MINDFULLNESS

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• Keeping your mind alert to what affects body and mind
• This leads to:
• Gaining insight
• Gaining qualities of dispassion

RIGHT CONCENTRATION

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• Aka right meditation
• Concentrating on one object until reaching full concentration
• Dependent on preceding paths
• Obtained by:
• Breathing, and repetition of phrases

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• Accomplishing the eightfold path leads to:
• Right knowledge
• Right liberation

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• Right knowledge:
• " seeing things as they really are by direct experience, not as they appear to be."
• Right liberation:
• "where self-awakening occurs and the practitioner has reached the pinnacle of their practice."