Buddha, The Word (The Eightfold Path)

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Title:	Buddha, The Word (The Eightfold Path)
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Language:	English
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Buddha, The Word (The Eightfold Path). (n.d.). Buddha, The Word (The Eightfold Path). Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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Excerpt: THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS THUS has it been said by the Buddha, the Enlightened One: It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, Disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? They are the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the Extinction of Suffering. As long as the absolutely true knowledge and insight as regards these Four Noble Truths was not quite clear in me, so long was I not sure, whether I had won that supreme Enlightenment which is unsurpassed in all the world with its heavenly beings, evil spirits and gods, amongst all the hosts of ascetics and priests, heavenly beings and men. But as soon as the absolutely true knowledge and insight as regards these Four Noble Truths had become perfectly clear in me, there arose in me the assurance that I had won that supreme Enlightenment unsurpassed.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: BUDDHA, THE WORD, 1 -- (The Eightfold Path), 1 -- THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, 2 -- FIRST TRUTH. THE NOBLE TRUTH OF SUFFERING, 2 -- THE FIVE GROUPS OF EXISTENCE, 3 -- THE CORPOREALITY GROUP OF FOUR ELEMENTS, 4 -- DEPENDENT ORIGINATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 5 -- THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXISTENCE, 6 -- SAMSARA, THE WHEEL OF EXISTENCE, 7 -- SECOND TRUTH. THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SUFFERING, 7 -- THE THREEFOLD CRAVING, 8 -- HEAPING UP OF PRESENT SUFFERING, 8 -- HEAPING UP OF FUTURE SUFFERING, 9 -- THIRD TRUTH. THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING, 9 -- DEPENDENT EXTINCTION OF ALL PHENOMENA, 10 -- NIRVANA, 10 -- THE ARAHAT, OR HOLY ONE, 10 -- THE IMMUTABLE, 11 -- FOURTH TRUTH. THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE PATH THAT LEADS TO THE -- EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING, 11 -- THE TWO EXTREMES AND THE MIDDLE PATH, 11 -- THE EIGHTFOLD PATH, 11 -- THE EIGHTFOLD PATH, 12 -- FIRST STEP. RIGHT UNDERSTANDING, 12 -- UNPROFITABLE QUESTIONS, 13 -- THE SOTAPAN, OR STREAM?ENTERER, 14 -- THE TWO UNDERSTANDINGS, 14 -- COMPLETE DELIVERANCE, 15 -- DEPENDENT ORIGINATION, 17 -- KARMA: REBIRTH ? PRODUCING AND BARREN, 17 -- SECOND STEP. RIGHT MINDEDNESS, 18 -- THIRD STEP. RIGHT SPEECH, 18 -- FOURTH STEP. RIGHT ACTION, 19 -- FIFTH STEP. RIGHT LIVING, 20 -- SIXTH STEP. RIGHT EFFORT, 20 -- FIVE METHODS OF EXPELLING EVIL THOUGHTS, 21 -- SEVENTH STEP. RIGHT ATTENTIVENESS, 21 -- CONTEMPLATION OF THE BODY, 22 -- THE TEN BLESSINGS, 23 -- CONTEMPLATION OF THE FEELINGS, 24 -- CONTEMPLATION OF THE MIND, 24 -- CONTEMPLATION OF PHENOMENA (Mind?objects), 24 -- NIRVANA THROUGH WATCHING OVER BREATHING, 25 -- EIGHTH STEP. RIGHT CONCENTRATION, 27 -- THE FOUR TRANCES, 28 -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE EIGHTFOLD PATH IN THE DISCIPLE, 29 -- CONFIDENCE AND RIGHT?MINDEDNESS (2nd Step), 29 -- MORALITY (3rd, 4th, 5th Step), 29