1. Developing Right View or Right Understanding. This means knowing and understanding the Four Noble Truths.
2. Right Thinking or Right Aim, meaning to strive for Perfect Wisdom, or the understanding of ultimate reality. The goal should be to overcome delusion and achieve freedom of mind.
3. Adhering to Right Speech, meaning to refrain form lying, slander, perjury, or hurtful speech.
4. Right Action. To avoid taking the life of or killing any living creature. To abstain from stealing and sensual or sexual misconduct. To abstain from all hurtful or vengeful acts.
5. The fifth part is Right Living, which means to abstain from all evil ways of living; to abstain from all evil methods of livelihood.
6. Right Effort, which means to conquer all hurtful, vengeful or evil states of mind they may have already arisen, and to develop and maintain good states of mind. Such states of mind would include loving kindness for all beings, compassion and pity for all creatures, sympathetic joy and equanimity.
7. Right Mindfulness. This means to cultivate dispassion, detachment, calm, tranquility, and indifference to all that is impermanent and, thus, not of the ultimate reality. To disregard all that is perceived, remaining dispassionate from both the pleasures as well as the pains arising from the creation of senses and sensuality.
8. The eighth part is Right Concentration, which means to develop one-pointedness of mind through intense meditation and reflection.
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Answered by Tingtong , an ibibo Master, at 11:07 PM on September 30, 2008

The Noble Eight Fold Path:

(i) Right Views

(ii) Right Thoughts

(iii) Right Speech

(iv) Right Actions

(v) Right Livelihood

(vi) Right Efforts

(vii) Right Mindfulness

(viii) Right Meditation

Answered by Vipan Thapar , an ibibo Master, at 3:03 PM on September 25, 2008

Dear prem !

Accordind to BUDDHISM The 8 Fold Paths are :

[1] RIGHT UNDERSTANDING : [Freedom from superstitions and delusions.]

[2] RIGHT THOUGHT [ High and worthy of theintelligent.]

[3]RIGHT SPEECH [ Kindly, open, trouthful ].

[4]RIGHT ACTIONS [ Peaceful, honest,pure ]

[5] RIGHT LIVELIHOOD [ Not bringing hurt or danger to living beings].

[6] RIGHT EFFORTS [ in self-training and self control]

[7] RIGHT MINDFULNESS [ The active watchful mind ]

[8] RIGHT CONCENTRATION [ The deep meditation on the realities of life].

Thanks, with divine love and blessings..................... .............................. ...................shiva.

Answered by SHIVA SHANKE , an ibibo Master, at 10:05 PM on September 23, 2008

The Buddha summarised the correct attitude and actions in the Eight-fold Noble Path:

Correct thought: avoiding covetousness, the wish to harm others and wrong views (like thinking: actions have no consequences, I never have any problems, there are no ways to end suffering etc.)
Correct speech: avoid lying, divisive and harsh speech and idle gossip.
Correct actions: avoid killing, stealing and sexual misconduct
Correct livelihood: try to make a living with the above attitude of thought, speech and actions.
Correct understanding: developing genuine wisdom.
(The last three aspects refer mainly to the practice of meditation:)
Correct effort: after the first real step we need joyful perseverance to continue.
Correct mindfulness: try to be aware of the "here and now", instead of dreaming in the "there and then".
Correct concentration: to keep a steady, calm and attentive state of mind.
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Answered by Jyothi , an ibibo Master, at 7:24 PM on September 23, 2008

well,in Buddhism, an early formulation of the path to enlightenment. The term appears in what is regarded as the first sermon of the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, which he delivered after his enlightenment. There he sets forth a middle way, the Eightfold Path, between the extremes of asceticism and sensual indulgence. Like the Sanskrit term Catvari-arya-satyani, which is usually translated as Four Noble Truths, the term Astangika-marga is also rendered as “noble”—the “Eightfold Noble Path.” Similarly, just as what is noble about the Four Noble Truths is not the truths themselves but those who understand them, what is noble about the Eightfold Noble Path is not the path itself but those who follow it. Accordingly, Astangika-marga might be more accurately translated as the “Eightfold Path of the [spiritually] noble.” Later in the sermon, the Buddha sets forth the Four Noble Truths and identifies the fourth truth, the truth of the path, with the Eightfold Path. Each element of the path also is discussed at length in other texts.

Answered by Debashis , an ibibo Master, at 7:12 PM on September 23, 2008

The Noble Eightfold Path is, in the teachings of the Buddha, declared to be the way that leads to the cessation of suffering (dukkha) and the achievement of self-awakening.[1] The Noble Eightfold Path is used as an instrument of discovery to gradually generate insights unveiling the ultimate truth of things. It is a technique used to eradicate greed, hatred and delusion. The last of the four noble truths is the Noble Eightfold Path, while the first factor of the Noble Eightfold Path is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths. In all of the elements of the noble eightfold path, the word "Right" is a translation of the word samyañc (Sanskrit) or sammā (Pāli), which denotes completion, togetherness, and coherence, and which can also carry the sense of "perfect" or "ideal".[2] In Buddhist symbolism, the Noble Eightfold Path is often represented by means of the dharma wheel, whose eight spokes represent the eight elements of the path.

The threefold division of the path

The Noble Eightfold Path is sometimes divided into three basic divisions, as follows:[4]
Division
Wisdom (Sanskrit: prajñā, Pāli: paññā)
Eightfold Path factors
1. Right view
2. Right intention
Ethical conduct (Sanskrit: śīla, Pāli: sīla) 3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
Concentration (Sanskrit and Pāli: samādhi) 6. Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration

Acquired factors
9. Right knowledge
10. Right liberation

Answered by Anju Singh , an ibibo Master, at 6:39 PM on September 23, 2008

The Noble Eightfold Path, the fourth of the Buddha's Noble Truths, is the way to the cessation of suffering (dukkha). In the early sources (the four main Nikayas) it is not generally taught to laypeople, and it is little known in the Far East.[33] It has eight sections, each starting with samyak (Sanskrit, meaning correctly, properly or well,[34] frequently translated into English as right), and presented in three groups:

* Prajñā is the wisdom that purifies the mind to attain spiritual insight into the true nature of all things. It includes:

1. dṛṣṭi; viewing reality as it is, not just as it appears to be.
2. saṃkalpa; intention of renunciation, freedom and harmlessness.

* Śīla is the ethics or morality, or abstention from unwholesome deeds. It includes:

3. vāc; speaking in a truthful and non hurtful way
4. karman; acting in a non harmful way
5. ājīvana; a non harmful livelihood

* Samadhi is the mental discipline required to develop mastery over one’s own mind. This is done through the practice of various contemplative and meditative practices, and includes:

6. vyāyāma; making an effort to improve
7. smṛti; awareness to see things for what they are with clear consciousness, being aware of the present reality within oneself, without any craving or aversion
8. samādhi; correct meditation or concentration
explained as the first 4 dhyānas

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Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 6:23 PM on September 23, 2008

The Eight fold path of Buddhism
1. Right Understanding (Samma ditthi)
2. Right Thought (Samma sankappa)
3. Right Speech (Samma vaca)
4. Right Action (Samma kammanta)
5. Right Livelihood (Samma ajiva)
6. Right Effort (Samma vayama)
7. Right Mindfulness (Samma sati)
8. Right Concentration (Samma samadhi)

Answered by Arle Rambabu , an ibibo Master, at 5:36 PM on September 23, 2008

The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things.
The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.

THE EIGHT ASPECTS ARE:
RIGHT VIEW, RIGHT INTENTION, RIGHT SPEECH, RIGHT ACTION,
RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, RIGHT EFFORT, RIGHT MINDFULNESS, RIGHT CONCENTRATION.

Answered by SESHAN , an ibibo Master, at 2:38 PM on September 23, 2008