A Presentation on the Noble 8-Fold Path for reflection and practice. For the Video presentation (with audio narration and comments in Hokkien), go to the Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fic_CkiwdGU

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A Road To
Perfect
Peace

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The Perfect
Happiness and
Peace is
NIRVANA
the
unconditioned
state of
Perfect Peace,
Perfect Wisdom
Perfect Freedom

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The Road Or Way is known as
The Noble Eightfold Path

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To Reach
The Goal
One has to
* Practice Morality
* Cultivate Mental
Stillness
* Develop Wisdom

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Noble Eightfold Path – The Middle Way
* MORALITY –
Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood
* CONCENTRATION –
Right Effort, Right Mindfulness,
Right Concentration
* WISDOM –
Right Understanding, Right Thought

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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING –
Knowledge of the Four Noble Truths ( The Truth
of Suffering, the Cause of Suffering, the End of
Suffering and the Way to the End of Suffering )

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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING –
The Understanding of things as they really are
The nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions

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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING –
The Three Characteristics of Life ( All compounded
things are impermanent, subject to suffering and
without a Self )

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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING –
Law of Dependent Origination
( All phenomena are relative, conditioned states and
do not arise independently of supportive conditions. )

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2 RIGHT THOUGHT
Thoughts of
detachment from
worldly pleasures
rather than being
selfishly attached
to them

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2 RIGHT THOUGHT –
Thoughts of benevolence, harmlessness,
selflessness
Thoughts filled with love and compassion

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3 RIGHT SPEECH –
No Lying, No Slander, No Harsh Speech,
No Frivolous Talk

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3 RIGHT SPEECH –
Truthful speech, kind and harmonious speech,
meaningful and beneficial speech

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4 RIGHT ACTION –
No Killing, No Stealing,
No Sexual Misconduct

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4 RIGHT ACTION –
Kind and compassionate action, generosity
and charity, contentment and respect for
personal relationship

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5 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD –
No trading in human beings, in weapons,
in flesh, in intoxicating drinks and drugs,
in poisons.

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6 RIGHT EFFORT –
Cultivate a positive attitude and have
enthusiasm in the things we do

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6 RIGHT EFFORT –
Effort to reject evil that has arisen in the mind
Effort to prevent the arising of evil in the mind

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6 RIGHT EFFORT –
Effort to develop unarisen good in the mind
Effort to maintain the good which has arisen
in the mind

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7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness of the body
Mindfulness of the feelings

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7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS –
Mindfulness of the t houghts
Mindfulness of the Dhamma

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8 RIGHT CONCENTRATION –
Developing one-pointedness of the mind
Concentrating, entering and remaining in
in the jhanas ( deep mental absorption states )

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The End
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin
May We All Walk The Path
To Nibbanic Bliss –
To Perfect Happiness and
Perfect Peace