The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Alice, for prefacing Virginia Tilley's article with these

tenets from the Buddha. It's the first time I've seen the eightfold

path stated simply and unadorned, and in all the clamor and pain

right here on this list right now over all the agonies people are

suffering (and I suspect most " fire sitters " , for Greg's recent use

again of that image, are more than just " aware of " the suffering, but

are suffering [mitGefuehl?!] also in the sense most of these posts

have been referring to) I personally am most particularly grateful

for your having presented these Buddhist tenets as your " window on "

(preface to) the article. [Helps me not feel I have to play out what

I used to call " the billiard ball effect " ...?! :-)].

Thank you, again.

marte

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> THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

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> The Four Noble Truths

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> 1. There is sufering in this world.

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> 2. Suffering comes from attachment and desire.

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> 3. Suffering can be overcome.

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> 4. By following the Noble Eight-fold Path

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> THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

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> RIGHT ASPIRATIONS

> High and worthy of the intelligent; worthy of mankind

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> RIGHT VIEWS

> Free of superstition and prejudice

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> RIGHT SPEECH

> Kindly, open and truthful

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> RIGHT CONDUCT

> Peaceful, honest, and pure

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> RIGHT LIVELIHOOD

> Bringing hurt or danger to no living thing

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> RIGHT EFFORT

> In self-discipline and self-control

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> RIGHT MINDFULNESS

> The active,watchful mind

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> RIGHT RAPTURE

> In deep meditation on the realities of life.

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> Gautama Buddha

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