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.The second branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right Intention’ … also spoken of as ‘Right Aspiration’ ‘Right Thought’ or ‘A Will to the Truth’ … … This is not some “black/white” promise to find “the one right answer“, to never make a mistake, or to always “do the one right thing”. Instead, it is…

.The first branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right View’ (sometimes called ‘Right Perspective’ or ‘Right Understanding’) … … It is to study and to come to understand the world through fundamental Buddhist perspectives and philosophies, and to make those ways of seeing a natural part of one’s life. The Four Noble Truths, The Eightfold…

.As the Fourth Noble Truth, ‘medicine’ for Dukkha is prescribed via the ‘Eightfold Path‘ … … Although the path is numbered sequentially, it is generally not seen as as series of steps, but instead (in modern terms) a ‘holistic lifestyle‘ which is “to be developed more or less simultaneously, … all linked together and each…

. An alternative wording of the Four Noble Truths is [emphasis added] … 1. Suffering exists 2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires 3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desires ceases 4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path Quiz: The ‘self’ strongly desires X, but the world gives Y instead (e.g.,…
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