The Eightfold Path: Right View
The whole of the ancient, master teachings on suffering come down to this: Suffering is the notion “This isn’t it,” and it’s variants such as, “I can’t bear this, it shouldn’t be happening,” and “I have to know how this will turn out” and “What if it gets worse?”
Freedom, waking up and fearlessness come down to the simplicity of, “Wait a minute,
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Well, the Buddha taught that this misconception is actually the primary cause of our suffering, and keeps us from finding lasting contentment. He laid out a path to overcome this ignorance, and see ourselves and the world more and more for what they actually are.
Seeing things more clearly brings about “insight”, and these insights change us.
They
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See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are. But you don’t have to think of them as evil—as intrinsically bad, as needing to be destroyed or driven from our midst. On the contrary, they need to be absorbed, healed, made whole. Like
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2-1 the Eightfold Path
Right view (intellectual understanding of Buddhist doctrine)
Right intention
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration -> meditation (experimental/practical understanding)
How many people have actually done it?
Almost none!
Still, if you can’t eliminate your suffering, you can
... See moreThe goal here is the end of suffering, and the path leading to it is the Noble Eightfold Path with its eight factors: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.