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  • The Buddha’s ‘Noble Eightfold Path’ is a further ‘unpacking’ of the ‘Threefold Way’ and is perhaps the most widely known of the Buddha’s teachings. It is ancient, extending back to the Buddha’s first discourse and is highly valued as a treasury of wisdom and practical guidance on how to live our lives. Traditionally the teaching is seen as highlighting eight areas or ‘limbs’ of ‘right’ practice (Sangharakshita prefers ‘perfect’ to ‘right’), which sit in mutual relationship to one other and are each essential elements in an integrated approach to the Dharma:

    1. Right Understanding or Perfect Vision
    2. Right Resolve or Perfect Emotion
    3. Right Speech or Perfect Speech
    4. Right Action or Perfect Action
    1. Right Livelihood or Perfect Livelihood
    2. Right Effort or Perfect Effort
    3. Right Mindfulness or Perfect Awareness
    4. ​Right Meditation or Perfect Samadhi

    Listen to Sangharakshita’s classic series of talks on The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path.

    Read the extended companion book.

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