and of living that may be grouped into three sections:
1. Wisdom (panna)
Right Understanding (samma ditthi)
Right Aspiration (samma sankappa)
2. Morality (sila)
Right Speech (samma vaca)
Right Action (samma kammanta)
Right Livelihood (samma ajiva)
3. Concentration (samadhi)
Right Effort (samma vayama)
Right Mindfulness (samma sati) <Expounded by the Buddha in the
Satipatthana Sutta and seen by many as central to Buddhist meditation,
understanding and practice>
Right Concentration (samma samadhi)
How many of them apply to our lives today? To our day at work or at home?
To our meeting tonight as a Sangha?
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This is the middle path which the Perfect One discovered and expounded, which
gives rise to vision and knowledge, which leads to peace, wisdom, enlightenment,
and nibbana--the noble eightfold path:
Right Understanding
of suffering
of its origin
of its cessation
of the way leading to the cessation of suffering
Right Intentions
of renunciation, free from craving
of good will, free from aversion
of compassion, free from cruelty
Right Speech
abstaining from false speech
abstaining from malicious speech
abstaining from harsh speech
abstaining from useless speech
Right Action
abstaining from taking life
abstaining from stealing
abstaining from sexual misconduct
Right Livelihood
giving up wrong livelihood, one earns one's living by a right form of livelihood
Right Effort
to prevent unarisen unwholesome mental states from arising
to abandon unwholesome mental states that have already arisen
to develop wholesome mental states that have not yet arisen
to maintain and perfect wholesome mental states already arisen
Right Mindfulness
mindful contemplation of the body
mindful contemplation of feelings
mindful contemplation of the mind
mindful contemplation of mental objects
Right Concentration
wholesome one-pointedness of mind
- Adapted from the Vandana books of the Bhavana Society and the Washington
Buddhist Vihara.