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The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering - Coggle Diagram
The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering
As individuals, we cannot rest with just being content. We need to go above and beyond to become the best overall person we can be.
Starts with pain, disappointment, and confusion
Spiritual Path = born out of suffering
We need to always seek and find goals that are attainable for us and see the values that are best for us to achieve these goals.
All of this has to trigger our realization within ourselves.
Approach to resolving problems include: eclectic one
Eclectic one: involves choosing from various traditions that satisfies our needs that involve different practices and techniques
All about choosing paths that will set us up for success.
Three criteria for evaluations:
"Teaching has to give a full and accurate picture of the range of suffering" (Bodhi, Bhikkhu).
"Correct analysis of the causes giving rise to suffering" (Bodhi, Bhikkhu).
"Directly to path itself" (remove suffering) (Bodhi Bhikkhu).
We are concerned with the Dhamma, the Buddha teaching.
Life tied to dukkha, deeper than just a normal type of suffering
Unsatisfactory derails people and causes them to feel bad about themselves.
Dukkha shows up in "birth, aging, and death" and other situations that we are not in agreement with.
Dukkha causes loads of frustration amongst people.
Round of rebirths = samsara
Mental states = Pali kilesas or defilements
Basic defilements = greed (individual desires), aversion (rejection), and delusion (darkness mentally)
These defilements bring about conceit, jealousy, ambition, lethargy, arrogance, and the rest
All brings about different dukkha forms
Ignorance (avijja) gives rise to all of these other defilements, brings darkness inside the mind
We need to get rid of the ignorance within us to seek our full potential. In order for this to happen though, we need to have wisdom (panna).
Middle way path (majjhima patipada) or Noble Eightfold Path
Self-mortification = gain liberation that is within the body
The Noble Eightfold Path "gives rise to vision, gives rise to knowledge, and leads to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibbana" (Bodhi, Bhikkhu).
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