1. Life is suffering ... what do you suffer?
2. We cause our suffering through desire and attachment ... what is causing you to suffer?
3. We hold the cure to our suffering through non-attachment and ending desire. ... How can you end your suffering?
4. The Eight-fold path ensures that we lessen our suffering to the greatest extent possible:
2. We cause our suffering through desire and attachment ... what is causing you to suffer?
3. We hold the cure to our suffering through non-attachment and ending desire. ... How can you end your suffering?
4. The Eight-fold path ensures that we lessen our suffering to the greatest extent possible:
- Right View or Right Understanding: insight into the true nature of reality
- Right Intention: the unselfish desire to realize enlightenment
- Right Speech: using speech compassionately
- Right Action: using ethical conduct to manifest compassion
- Right Livelihood: making a living through ethical and non-harmful means
- Right Effort: Cultivating wholesome qualities and releasing unwholesome qualities
- Right Mindfulness: Whole body-and-mind awareness
- Right Concentration: Meditation or some other dedicated, concentrated practice
Resources:
O’Brien, B. 2019. “The Eightfold Path to Enlightenment in Buddhism.” Learn Religions. Web source: https://www.learnreligions.com/the-eightfold-path-450067 accessed 9/9/2019
Sacred Texts. N.D. Sermon at Benares. https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg17.htm accessed 9/9/2019
O’Brien, B. 2019. “The Eightfold Path to Enlightenment in Buddhism.” Learn Religions. Web source: https://www.learnreligions.com/the-eightfold-path-450067 accessed 9/9/2019
Sacred Texts. N.D. Sermon at Benares. https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg17.htm accessed 9/9/2019