Eight Noble Path
This is much wonderful path among All Paths
Only way for escape from all sufferings
When Lord Buddha achieved omniscient wisdom, he found about: suffering, reason for suffering (lust, ill-will & ignorance), freedom from suffering (enlightening, nirvana or state of removed lust) and method of remove suffering which is called as eight noble path. These four findings are called as Four Noble Truths. Both Buddhist laic & Buddhist monks use this eight noble path for remove their lust to sansara or rebirth cycle. Here we discuss eight noble path. Fundamental Buddhism has three merit paths which are going on Precepts, Meditation & Wisdom. So this eight noble path is going along with these three merit paths as following table:
| Path | Noble Path | Merit Path | Path | Noble Path | Merit Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right Knowledge | Wisdom | 5 | Right Works | Precepts |
| 2 | Right Concepts | Wisdom | 6 | Right Persistence | Precepts |
| 3 | Right Words | Precepts | 7 | Right Concentration | Meditation |
| 4 | Right Actions | Precepts | 8 | Right Samadhi | Meditation |
Right Wisdom
Here we want to accept following ten ideas are truth which were invented by Lord Buddha,
- There have positive incomes of donation which are given to poor people.
- There have positive incomes of donation which are given to virtue monks & priests (people who observe great precepts) by trusting dependent organism theory.
- There have positive incomes of donation which are done in happy occasions
- There have positive & negative incomes of meritorious activities & bad actions
- Living beings born in this world be cause of karma/actions of their past lifetimes.
- Living beings rebirth in next life according to karma/actions.
- There have positive incomes of take caring your mother.
- There have positive incomes of take caring your father.
- There have creatures with energetical body such as gods, devils, ghosts & beings in hells.
- Accepting that Lord Buddha & some sage develop their mind power for understand universal truths.
Paths which are belongs to Precepts
| Right Concepts | Removing from desires to five senses, Removing angry & Removing harms. |
|---|---|
| Right Words | Avoiding: Lies, Saying hint to others, Bad words & useless words. |
| Right Actions | Observing precepts in Buddhism: Pancha Silaa or higher... |
| Right Works | Avoiding jobs related to: Sell eggs, meats & fishes as foods, sell weapons, sell poisons & sell alcoholic drinks. |
| Right Persistence | Avoiding sins, Reducing currently doing sins, Doing merits & increasing currently doing meritorious activities. |
Right Concentration - Four Noble Concentration
| Concentration
or meditation about own body |
Focus mind to: breathing, body movements, spoiling of death body, internal body paths, way of digesting foods, etc... |
|---|---|
| Concentration
or meditation about feelings via six senses |
Focus mind to: Positive, negative & indifferent impacting to six senses via eye, ear, nose, skin, mouth & mind. |
| Concentration
or meditation about own mind |
Lust, angry & ignorance feelings are created inside mind, so focus your mind to identify them and removing them from mind. |
| Concentration
or meditation about advance Dharma |
Use your mind with advance Dharma matters which are helping to achieve enlightening. |
Right Samadhi / Right Concentration
Holding your mind into one jhana among four jhanas for long time or doing meditation long time. Understanding all things in universe are created as dependent organism. Then understand all things are not steady, hence sadness happens. So no any things belong to creature called as "My" (or me). Because if anything belongs to "I" or me, I could able to controlled them as what my like way or stop them from their destroying. But never like that happens in this universe except destroying, vanishing, etc...
Right Wisdom & Right Freedom
From these eight noble paths, we can understand about life & universe and then it is helping us to destroying our lust to unnecessary bonds. There also have achieving right wisdom & it finally help to get right freedom. So this is the great finding of all Lord Buddha. In critical rebirth cycle, lust & ignorance mainly help to bond to suffering from pains, sick, meeting negative people (where meet angry), losing loved people, what we hope things can't get in easy way, mental problems & finally death. Person who liked to achieve enlighten state goes in six paths as below mentioned methods:
- Person has devotion that six organs inside the our body are unsteady & those are created cause of past karma collected in infinitive lifetimes ago, so he or she called as Saddhanusari or Devotion-Hood.
- Person understands that six organs are unsteady & created cause of past karma collected in infinitive lifetimes, so he or she called as Dharmanusari or Dharma-Hood.
- Person who removes three ignorance - theory of soul, doubt about Buddhism and follow other religious customs & mere traditional practicing. They are called as Soovan or Stream Enterer.
- People attain second states remove - accepting theory of soul, doubt about Buddhism and follow other religious customs & mere traditional practicing. Also they reduce or make powerless - great bonds to five senses & great ill-will or violence nature in mind which help to born in human world. They are called as Sakudragami, means one-returning to lust world. They rebirth in upper heavens such as Tusitha.
- People are non-returning to lust world called as Anagami and only born in five great heavens of pure lands. People attain this states remove - accepting theory of soul, doubt about Buddhism, follow other religious customs & mere traditional practicing. Also completely remove: great bonds to five senses, great ill-will & violence nature in mind. But they still have bonds to material & non-material worlds, proud, swaying state of mind via thoughts & thinking.
- Buddhist monks who attain Arahant or fully enlighten state, they are not rebirth & finished all bonds in rebirth cycle. As same as flame of oil lamp disappear after fade off, their consciousness is disappear. This is final goal of all Buddhist people. Nibbana, Nirvana, Enlightening & Noble Freedom means this state. They finished all works in rebirth cycle & got rid from all pains and sufferings.