1 A Road To Ultimate Happiness
Jan 05, 2016
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A Road ToUltimate
Happiness
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The Ultimate Happiness is
NIRVANAthe
unconditionedstate of
Perfect Peace,Perfect WisdomPerfect Freedom
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The Road Or Way is known asThe Noble Eightfold Path
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To Reach The Goal
One has to
* Practice Morality
* Cultivate Mental Cultivation* Develop Wisdom
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Noble Eightfold Path – The Middle Way
* MORALITY – Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood
* CONCENTRATION –Right Effort, Right Mindfulness,
Right Concentration
* WISDOM –Right Understanding, Right Thought
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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – Knowledge of the Four Noble Truths ( The Truth of Suffering, the Cause of Suffering, the End of Suffering and the Way to the End of Suffering )
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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Understanding of things as they really are The nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions
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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Three Characteristics of Life ( All compounded things are impermanent, subject to suffering and without a Self )
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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – Law of Dependent Origination ( All phenomena are relative, conditioned states and do not arise independently of supportive conditions. )
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2 RIGHT THOUGHT
Thoughts of detachment from worldly pleasures rather than being selfishly attached to them
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2 RIGHT THOUGHT – Thoughts of benevolence, harmlessness, selflessnessThoughts filled with love and compassion
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3 RIGHT SPEECH – No Lying, No Slander, No Harsh Speech, No Frivolous Talk
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3 RIGHT SPEECH – Truthful speech, kind and harmonious speech, meaningful and beneficial speech
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4 RIGHT ACTION – No Killing, No Stealing, No Sexual Misconduct
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4 RIGHT ACTION – Kind and compassionate action, generosity and charity, contentment and respect for personal relationship
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5 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD – No trading in human beings, in weapons, in flesh, in intoxicating drinks and drugs, in poisons.
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6 RIGHT EFFORT – Cultivate a positive attitude and have
enthusiasm in the things we do
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6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to reject evil that has arisen in the mind Effort to prevent the arising of evil in the mind
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6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to develop unarisen good in the mind Effort to maintain the good which has arisen in the mind
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7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS Mindfulness of the body Mindfulness of the feelings
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7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS – Mindfulness of the t houghts Mindfulness of the mind states
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8 RIGHT CONCENTRATION – Developing one-pointedness of the mind Concentrating, entering and remaining in in the jhanas ( deep mental absorption states )
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The End
With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin
May We All Walk The Path To Nibbanic Bliss –
To Ultimate Happiness and Perfect Peace