The Noble Eightfold Path on the Mundane Level # 6
The bodhisattva was once born as a golden a golden peacock with a body the size of a cart and eyes like bright red berries and its mouth pink like coral
The Noble Eightfold Path on the Mundane Level # 2
When Right Intention is described in the Suttas, it is anaIysed in to three types: 1.The Intention to remove oneself from sensual desire [nekkamma sankappa]
The 38 Ways to Happiness:- Restraint from Drinking Intoxicants (3)
The 38 Ways to Happiness. The Sixth Group of Blessings. Blessing Twenty: Restraint from Drinking Intoxicants.
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering # 2
The mindfulness of the feeling in the feeling is to see and consider the feelings [vedana] both inside and outside, the whole of the time
Abstaining from Unwholesomeness # 1
“Before we dress up beautifully, we need to shower off all the dirt. So as before we purify the mind for a higher virtue, we need to abstain from all kinds of unwholesomeness
The Noble Eightfold Path on the Mundane Level # 3
The sort of wholesome speech which arises from a mind which is wholesome at the mundane level is well illustrated by the tale of Sujata
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering # 7
When the factors f the Eightflfold Path arise, they do so to gether-just as the elder monk kondanna, after lidtening to the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta instantly attained the fruit of the Stream-Entry
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering # 2
Thus the Lord Buddha taught that if we can overcome our greedy attachments to the things we love in the world, craving can be overcome too
Blameless work # 1
Just because a factory can make a large amount of things, it does not mean that it is a good factory
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering # 1
The final of the four Truths of the Noble Ones taught by the Lord Buddha was the Path to the Cessation of Suffering (or the Noble Eightfold Path) – the way to extinguish all suffering and attain Nirvana.
