And what,
Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right
View?
It is,
Bhikkhus, knowing such is suffering, such is the cause of suffering,
knowing such is the ceasing of suffering, and knowing such is the way leading
to the cessation of suffering. This
is called Right View...
And what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right Motivation?
Being motivated by withdrawal, by good-will, and being motivated by utter
harmlessness. This, Bhikkhus and friends, is called Right Motivation...
And what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right
Speech?
Refraining from any lying, from slandering, from scolding, and refraining
from
empty gossip. This is called Right Speech...
And what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right
Action?
Refraining from all killing, from all stealing and cheating, and avoiding all
sexual misconduct. This is called Right Action...
And
what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right Livelihood?
Here, Bhikkhus and friends, the Noble Disciple, having given up
all wrong
livelihood, lives by right livelihood. This is called Right Livelihood...
And what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right
Effort?
Here, Bhikkhus and friends, one makes a decision, makes an
effort, stirs up
energy, exerts the mind and strives to prevent the arising
of unarisen evil
disadvantageous mental states. One makes a decision... and strives
hard to
overcome any evil disadvantageous mental state that already have arisen.
One makes a decision... and strives to develop all yet unarisen
advantageous
mental states. One makes a decision, makes an effort, stirs up energy,
exerts the mind and strives to
maintain any advantageous mental states,
that already have arisen, not letting them fade
away, growing them greater,
to the fulfilled perfection of
development. This is called Right Effort...
And what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right Awareness?
Here, Bhikkhus, one dwells considering the body as a group of
mere form,
alert, clearly comprehending and aware, thereby ending worldly
urge and trouble...
One dwells considering feelings just as assigned responses,
alert, clearly
comprehending and aware, thereby ending all worldly urge and
trouble...
One dwells considering
mind and mentality just as ever changing moods, alert,
clearly comprehending and aware, thereby ending worldly urge and
trouble...
One dwells considering all phenomena only as always shifting mental states,
alert, clearly comprehending and aware, thereby ending worldly urge
and trouble...
This is called Right Awareness...
And what, Bhikkhus and friends, is
Right
Concentration?
Secluded from sensual desires,
protected from any detrimental mental state,
one enters and dwells in the 1st
jhāna; full of
Joy and pleasure born
of solitude,
joined with directed and sustained thought.
Again, with the stilling of directed
and sustained thought, one enters and dwells
in the 2nd
jhāna, calmed and assured unification of mind, in
joy and pleasure
now born of a concentration, which is empty of all thought and
thinking!
Again, friends, with the fading away of joy, one dwells in equanimity, just
aware and clearly comprehending, still feeling
bodily
pleasure, one enters
upon and remains
in the 3rd
jhāna, regarding which the Noble Ones declare:
'In aware
Equanimity one dwells in
Happiness!'...
Again, friends, with the leaving behind of both pleasure and pain,
and with
the prior fading away of both joy
and sorrow, one enters and dwells in the 4th
jhāna;
a serene mental state of still, open and clear awareness, purified by
the
Equanimity of
neither-pain-nor-pleasure! This is Right Concentration...
That, Bhikkhus, is called the Way leading to the Ceasing of
all Suffering...
Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fulfilled_First_.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Failed_by_Neglect.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Long Speeches of the Buddha.
Digha Nikāya. Book II
[306-314]
Thread: The Foundations of Awareness.
Mahāsatipatthāna
Sutta
22.
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/dn/index.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/dn/index.html
