The Ultimate Beginner's Mind Guide to Buddha's Eightfold Path
For your entertainment and enlightenment, here are eight links to eight articles about the eight steps of the Eightfold Path. Which are actually not linear steps at all, but rather eight aspects to cultivate on the path toward full liberation.
Wise Effort: Neither Slacking Nor Overachieving.
The Buddha taught that practice should be like a well-tuned string instrument. If the strings are too loose, they won’t play a sound. If they are too tight, they will break.
Right Livelihood: What Makes Work Worthwhile?
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~Stephen King
Wise Action (Anything Could Happen Next.)
“What supports moving away from suffering and toward freedom from suffering?”
Wise Speech: True, Gentle, Helpful.
Buddha distilled his instructions on right speech down to a simple principle: “Say what is true and useful.”
Wise Intention: Renunciation, Goodwill, Harmlessness
The Buddha explains right intention as threefold: the intention of renunciation, the intention of goodwill and the intention of harmlessness... as opposed to three parallel kinds of wrong intention, those governed by desire, ill will and harmfulness.