The Noble Eightfold Path
A The Noble Eightfold Path is an Buddhist principle of Buddhist performative practice.
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- The Eightfold Path (Pali: Template:IAST; Sanskrit: Template:IAST)[1] is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn in the form of nirvana.Template:Sfn[2]
The Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right samadhi ('meditative absorption or union'; alternatively, equanimous meditative awareness).Template:Sfn
In early Buddhism, these practices started with understanding that the body-mind works in a corrupted way (right view), followed by entering the Buddhist path of self-observance, self-restraint, and cultivating kindness and compassion; and culminating in dhyana or samadhi, which reinforces these practices for the development of the body-mind.Template:Sfn In later Buddhism, insight (prajñā) became the central soteriological instrument, leading to a different concept and structure of the path,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn in which the "goal" of the Buddhist path came to be specified as ending ignorance and rebirth.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal summaries of the Buddhist teachings, taught to lead to Arhatship.[3] In the Theravada tradition, this path is also summarized as sila (morality), samadhi (meditation) and prajna (insight). In Mahayana Buddhism, this path is contrasted with the Bodhisattva path, which is believed to go beyond Arhatship to full Buddhahood.[3]
In Buddhist symbolism, the Noble Eightfold Path is often represented by means of the dharma wheel (dharmachakra), in which its eight spokes represent the eight elements of the path.
- The Eightfold Path (Pali: Template:IAST; Sanskrit: Template:IAST)[1] is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn in the form of nirvana.Template:Sfn[2]
- ↑ Brekke, Torkel. "The Religious Motivation of the Early Buddhists". Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Dec. 1999), p. 860
- ↑ Stephen J. Laumakis (2008). An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 978-1-139-46966-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=_29ZDAcUEwYC&pg=PA150.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harvey, Peter (2000). An introduction to Buddhist ethics : foundations, values and issues. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 123–24. ISBN 0-521-55394-6.