The Holiness NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH
1. Right View/Understanding
(Understanding the Four Noble Truths) - See things as they truly are
without delusions or distortions for all things change. Develop wisdom by
knowing how things work, knowing oneself and others.
2. Right Thinking
Decide to set a life on the correct path. Wholehearted resolution and
dedication to overcoming the dislocation of self-centered craving through
the development of loving kindness, empathy and compassion.
3. Right Speech
Abstinence from lies and deceptions, backbiting, idle babble and abusive
speech. Cultivate honesty and truthfulness; practice speech that is kind
and benevolent. Let your words reflect your desire to help, not harm others.
4.Right Conduct
(Following the Five Precepts) - Practice self-less conduct that reflects
the highest statement of the life you want to live. Express conduct that
is peaceful, honest and pure showing compassion for all beings.
5. Right Livelihood
Earn a living that does not harm living things. Avoidance of work that
causes suffering to others or that makes a decent, virtuous life impossible.
Do not engage in any occupation that opposes or distracts one from the path.
Love and serve our world through your work.
6. Right Effort
Seek to make the balance between the exertion of following the spiritual
path and a moderate life that is not over-zealous. Work to develop more
wholesome mind states, while gently striving to go deeper and live more
fully.
7. Right Mindfulness
Become intensely aware of all the states in body, feeling, and mind.
Through constant vigilance in thought, speech and action seek to rid the
mind of self-centered thoughts that separate and replace them with those
that bind all beings together. Be aware of your thoughts, emotions, body
and world as they exist in the present moment. Your thoughts create your
reality.
8. Right Concentration
Deep meditation to lead to a higher state of consciousness (enlightenment)
. Through the application of meditation and mental discipline seek to extinguish
the last flame of grasping consciousness and develop an emptiness that has
room to embrace and love all things.
1. Right View/Understanding
(Understanding the Four Noble Truths) - See things as they truly are
without delusions or distortions for all things change. Develop wisdom by
knowing how things work, knowing oneself and others.
2. Right Thinking
Decide to set a life on the correct path. Wholehearted resolution and
dedication to overcoming the dislocation of self-centered craving through
the development of loving kindness, empathy and compassion.
3. Right Speech
Abstinence from lies and deceptions, backbiting, idle babble and abusive
speech. Cultivate honesty and truthfulness; practice speech that is kind
and benevolent. Let your words reflect your desire to help, not harm others.
4.Right Conduct
(Following the Five Precepts) - Practice self-less conduct that reflects
the highest statement of the life you want to live. Express conduct that
is peaceful, honest and pure showing compassion for all beings.
5. Right Livelihood
Earn a living that does not harm living things. Avoidance of work that
causes suffering to others or that makes a decent, virtuous life impossible.
Do not engage in any occupation that opposes or distracts one from the path.
Love and serve our world through your work.
6. Right Effort
Seek to make the balance between the exertion of following the spiritual
path and a moderate life that is not over-zealous. Work to develop more
wholesome mind states, while gently striving to go deeper and live more
fully.
7. Right Mindfulness
Become intensely aware of all the states in body, feeling, and mind.
Through constant vigilance in thought, speech and action seek to rid the
mind of self-centered thoughts that separate and replace them with those
that bind all beings together. Be aware of your thoughts, emotions, body
and world as they exist in the present moment. Your thoughts create your
reality.
8. Right Concentration
Deep meditation to lead to a higher state of consciousness (enlightenment)
. Through the application of meditation and mental discipline seek to extinguish
the last flame of grasping consciousness and develop an emptiness that has
room to embrace and love all things.
