Talk 6 of 8 in a series on The Noble Eightfold Path at the London Buddhist Centre.
Treading the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path is a matter of ‘bringing the whole of our life up to the level of its highest moments’ – so says our teacher, Bhante Sangharakshita. Glimpses of the true nature of things – whether through some personal tragedy, a higher experience of art or nature, or just through our ‘simple human maturity’ – get us on to the Path. But soon enough our whole being, in all its heights and depths, need to be transformed in the light of this insight. So it is both vision and transformation; a sight of the mountain peak, and a map for trudging up its slopes bit by bit.