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Eightfold Path

“SN 45.8 Magga-Vibhaṅga Sutta: Analysis of the Whole Path”

• Right View:
  knowledge of suffering, its origin, its cessation and the path to cessation.

• Right Intention:
  renunciation, non ill-will, harmlessness

• Right Speech:
  abstinence from false, divisive, harsh or idle talk

• Right Action:
  abstinence from destoying life, from taking what is not given and sexual misconduct

• Right Livelihood:
  abstinence from livelihood based on dishonesty, violence or coercion

• Right Effort:
  don’t let evil states arise and work to reduce those that have arisen for oneself and for others

• Right Mindfulness:
  contemplate the body as the body, feelings as feelings, mind as mind and phenomena as phenomena

• Right Concentration:
  the four jhanas

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