eightfold path
Eight-step systematic approach
In Buddhism, the eightfold path is the way to end suffering, comprising right understanding, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
These eight practices guide practitioners toward enlightenment and liberation from the cycle of rebirth: She studied the eightfold path as part of her meditation practice. (Also capitalized as Eightfold Path.)
- right actionMorally sound deed
- middle wayModerate position between opposites
- Buddhist practicePath toward awakening
- dharma wheelSymbol of Buddhist teachings
- noble truthsBuddhism's central doctrines
bodhi · meditation · walking meditation · mindfulness · compassion · nirvana · letting go · enlightenment · wisdom · buddha · insight · samadhi · non-violence · morality · awareness · impermanence · sangha · understanding
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
- BuddhismBuddha, dharma wheel, Four Noble Truths, nirvana, dharma
- Dharmic Traditionsdharma, karma, moksha, samsara, atman
- Pali Buddhismsutta, vinaya, sangha, buddha, samsara
- Tibetan BuddhismBuddha, Tibet, Dalai Lama, lama, lamas
- Buddhist educationBuddhist teachings, novice training, Buddhist texts, Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist philosophy
eightfold pathTen Commandments
Scriptural moral code
hedonism · materialism · Tao · nihilism · via negativa
eight, eightfold, eighth, eighty, eighteen, eighteenth, eightieth, fold, folds