http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/ The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:05:20 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3662 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3662 "So when you open your mouth ask yourself: Which duty is this fulfilling? Is this helping to comprehend suffering? Is it helping to abandon the cause? Is it Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:38:33 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3661 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3661 "As the Buddha once said, if you don't have the pleasure and rapture that can come from at least the first jhana, you're always going to be tempted by Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:26:50 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3660 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3660 "It's good to remember that the Buddha himself when he talked about wisdom would tend to talk in very simple terms. All the teachings derive from very basic, Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:28:21 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3659 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3659 "If you are facing in the right direction, all you have to do is keep on walking." ~ Buddhist proverb From: antony272b2 (antony272b@...) Sent: Friday, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:12:40 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3658 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3658 "This completes our survey of the Noble Eightfold Path, the way to deliverance from suffering taught by the Buddha. The higher reaches of the path may seem Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:35:26 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3657 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3657 Hi Norbert, Group, More from Bhikkhu Bodhi: "It is said, for example, that study is concerned with words and concepts, not with realities; that it leads only Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:10:38 GMT Norbert Tenenbaum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3656 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3656 This current teaching really speaks to me. I'm speaking about the part that says that right view now has to be raised to a higher level. It needs to become "a Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:19:10 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3655 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3655 "Though right concentration claims the last place among the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, concentration itself does not mark the path's culmination. The Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:28:26 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3654 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3654 "The purification of conduct established by the prior three factors serves as the basis for the next division of the path, the division of concentration Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:29:12 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3653 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3653 "According to the Buddhist outlook, goodness of will must be translated into concrete courses of action. It must be regulated by specific principles of right Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:24:47 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3652 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3652 "Another instance of Wrong Concentration is when ? after you've begun practicing to the point where you've attained threshold (upacara) concentration ? you Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:59:42 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3651 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3651 "Mindfulness means care and restraint to make sure that our thoughts, words, and deeds don't go off the mark; being conscious of good and evil so that our Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:02:22 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3650 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3650 "VI. Right Effort. There are four ways of exerting ourselves in line with the Dhamma ? A. Make a persistent effort to abandon whatever evil there is in your Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:58:05 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3649 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3649 "V. Right Livelihood: In maintaining ourselves and supporting our families, expending our wealth for the various articles we use or consume, we must use our Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:31:14 GMT antony272b2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3648 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eightfold-l/message/3648 "IV. Right Action: being upright in our activities. With reference to our personal actions, this means adhering to the three principles of virtuous conduct ?