If we hear music and it makes us feel good, we should dance; really shake it with all we’ve got.
If some one plays a song you don’t like and demands that you dance, simply walk away. 1. Right view 2. Right intention 3. Right speech 4. Right action 5. Right livelihood 6. Right effort 7. Right mindfulness 8. Right concentration The Noble Eightfold Path -By Bhikkhu BodhiDukkha, its origin, its cessation, and the way to its cessation-these are the Four Noble Truths, the "elephant's footprint" that contains within itself all the essential teachings of the Buddha. It might be risky to say that any one truth is more important than the others. since they all hang together in a very close integral unit. But if we were to single out one truth as the key to the whole Dhamma it would be the Fourth Noble Truths, the truth of the way, the way to the end of Dukkha. That is the Noble Eightfold Path, the path made up of the following eight factors divided into three larger groups;
wisdom1. right view 2. right intention moral discipline 3. right speech 4. right action 5. right livelihood concentration 6. right effort 7. right mindfulness 8. right concentration |
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