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essay on eightfold path of buddha of 120 words​

Answer 1

The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path constitute the essential Buddhist Dharma. It is the sum of the Buddha’s teachings and forms the foundational teaching of every Buddhist school. The Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism, as proposed by the Buddha, consists of eight distinct spiritual practices which lead to Nirvana, or liberation from the cycle of births and deaths. It is also known as the Middle Path and Right Living. The eight practices are Right View, Right Intention (Right Resolve), Right Speech (Right Conduct), Right Livelihood, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration. They are broadly grouped into three sets of practices. The first part is to cultivate morality (sila) with Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood. The second part is meant to perfect meditation techniques with Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration which culminate in the highest state of mental absorption (samadhi). The third part leads to insight or higher wisdom (prajna) with Right View and Right Intention or Resolve. In this section, we have presented a collection of our essays on the eight practices of the Eightfold Path.

"And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration." — Samyutta Nikaya LVI.11

Answer 2

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Buddhism developed out of Hinduism in the sixth century B.C. For a Buddhist salvation is reaching Nirvana. Nirvana is a transcendental, blissful, spiritual state of nothingness--you become a Buddha, the enlightened one.

The Noble Eightfold Path:

1. Right Understanding: accepting the Four Noble Truths.

1. The existence of suffering;
2. The cause of suffering;
3. The end of suffering;
4. And the end of pain.

2. Right Resolve: renounce the pleasures of the body. Change your lifestyle so that you harm no living creatures and have kind thoughts for everyone.

3. Right Speech: do not gossip, lie or slander anyone.

4. Right Action: do not kill, steal or engage in an unlawful sexual act.

5. Right Occupation (Right Livelihood): avoid working at any job that could harm someone.

6. Right Effort: heroically work to eliminate evil from your life. Through your own effort develop good conduct and a clean mind.

7. Right Contemplation: make your self aware of your deeds, words and thoughts so that you can be free of desire and sorrow.

8. Right Meditation: train your mind to focus on a single object without wavering so as to develop a calm mind capable of concentration.

Following the Noble Eightfold Path requires that a person do the above eight things. Nirvana (Salvation) is through what a Buddhist does. It is through human works, what a person does with his life.

Three characteristics of all existence:

In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics of all existence and beings, namely impermanence (aniccā), unsatisfactoriness or suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anattā).