... (3) There is a way to escape from suffering, to put an end to pain. (4) This liberation is obtained by following the discipline of the Eightfold Path which gradually purifies the mind from the Ignorance. The fourth Truth is called the method of the Eightfold Path. The Noble Path consists in a training in the following eight stages: (1) Correct seeing . To see things as they are, that is to... the Buddha, in the Dhamma 1 and the Sangha, 2 with perfect knowledge, perceives the Four Noble Truths: Suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the Noble Eightfold Path which leads to cessation of suffering. In truth, this is the sure refuge, this is the sovereign refuge. To choose this refuge is to be liberated from all suffering. It is difficult to... his disciples, those who are free from all desire and all error, those who have overcome all obstacles and who have crossed beyond suffering and grief. This concerns the Four Truths and the Eightfold Path that lead to the annihilation of suffering. Here are the details given in the text: The Four Noble Truths are: (1) Life—taken in the sense of ordinary life, the life of ignorance and falsehood—is ...
... that craving, abandonment, forsaking, release, non-attachment. Now this, 0 monks, is the noble truth of the way that leads to the cessation of pain: this Page 40 is the noble Eightfold Path, namely, right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. 1 Thereafter, according to tradition, the Buddha... Dhamma 5 and the Sangha," with perfect knowledge, perceives the Four Noble Truths: Page 52 Suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the Noble Eightfold Path which leads to cessation of suffering. In truth, this is the sure refuge, this is the sovereign refuge. To choose this refuge is to be liberated from all suffering. ... error, those who have overcome all obstacles and who have crossed beyond suffering and grief. Page 53 The Path The best of all paths is the Eightfold Path; the best of all truths is the Fourfold Truth; the best of all states is freedom from attachment; the best among men is the One who sees, the Buddha. Truly, this is the Path; there is no other ...
... so getting rid of the stream of birth and death in a purely phenomenal (not an unreal) world; the method of life by which this liberation could be effected was also a psychological method, the eightfold path developing right understanding and right action. His object was pragmatic and severely practical and so were his methods; metaphysical speculations would only draw the mind away from the one thing... life, I do not quite see how service to mankind or any ideal of improvement of the world existence can have been part of his aim, since to pass out of life into a transcendence was his object. His eightfold path was the means towards that end and not an aim in itself or indeed in any way an aim. Obviously if right understanding and right action became the common rule of life, there would be a great improvement ...
... through sattwa is the ordinary idea of Yoga, it is the preparation and purification by the yama-niyama of Patanjali or by other means in other Yogas, e.g., saintliness in the bhakti schools, the eightfold path in Buddhism etc., etc. In our Yoga the evolution through sattwa is replaced by the cultivation of equanimity, samatā , and by the psychic transformation. It is a very beautiful character... dharma as relative; unity with the Divine and action from the Divine Will the highest way. Buddha did not aim at action in the world, but at cessation from the world-existence. For that he found the eightfold Path a necessary preparatory discipline and so proclaimed it. It [ Ahimsa ] had nothing to do with the Yuga [ at the time of Buddha ], but with the path towards liberation found by Buddha. There ...
... brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven. Thus wagged on the surreal world, until ...
... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Path The best of all paths is the Eightfold Path; the best of all truths is the Fourfold Truth; the best of all states is freedom from attachment; the best among men is the One who sees, the Buddha. Truly, this is the Path; there is no other which leads to purification of vision ...
... of a distantly paternal God, nor the well-meaning missionary indoctrination content with a result of superficial assent and formal knee-bending before the tables of the ten commandments or the eightfold path. If there is a God in whom are all beauty and harmony, an effort must be made to know Him as we know the sun of midday, feel Him as we feel our flesh and the flesh of those who are dear to us, ...
... brink Composed the Iliad A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helena went, perhaps to Heaven. Thus wagged on the surreal ...
... world filled with sorrow or duhkha with human craving that is trishna as its cause; but then he also proclaimed that this sorrow can be removed and the way to remove it is by following the Eightfold Path of Righteousness. The entire issue thus reduces to the release from the universal Law of Action or Karma which could be accomplished by extinguishing the fire of desire and finally disappearing ...
... rigorous practice of truthfulness, non-violence, continence, non-covetousness and burning away of all attachments to possession. In the Yoga of Buddhism, the process of yoga consists of the eightfold path, namely, of right beliefs, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right mode of livelihood, right effort, right mindedness and right rapture. There are also many other systems of yoga ...
... rigorous practice of truthfulness, non-violence, continence, non- covetousness and burning away of all attachments to possession. In the Yoga of Buddhism, the process of yoga consists of the eightfold path, namely, right beliefs, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right mode of livelihood, right effort, right mindedness and right rapture. There are also many other systems of yoga which ...
... Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven. Thus wagged on the surreal ...
... as relative; unity with the Divine and action from the Divine Will, the highest way. Buddha did not aim at action in the world, but at cessation from the world-existence. For that he found the eightfold Path a necessary preparatory discipline and so proclaimed it. My contention is that not everything they said was infallible... Of course if you hold that all their movements were guided by the Divine ...
... Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven. Thus wagged ...
... Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right, A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helens went, perhaps, to Heaven. Thus wagged on the surreal ...
... Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven.... 16 On the eve of the ...
... kingly home & rich domestic joys to wander through the world as a beggar and ascetic; to escape from the insistent pain, grief and suffering of the world the Lord of Pity discovered for man the eightfold path, the law of compassion & self-sacrifice, the heavenly door of renunciation and the silent and blindly luminous haven of Nirvana. The Seer of the Upanishad sets before himself the same problem but ...
... appearance. The Buddhist ideal of Nirvana was no more than a sharply Page 207 negative and exclusive statement of the highest Vedantic spiritual experience. The ethical system of the eightfold path taken as the way to release was an austere sublimation of the Vedic notion of the Right, Truth and Law followed as the way to immortality, ṛtasya panthāḥ . The strongest note of Mahayana Buddhism ...
... seem to be ready for the arising of Presence. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga, as in Eckhart's teaching, there is no mental code of conduct like the Yama—Niyama (do's and don'ts) of Patanjali or the Eightfold Path of Buddhism for the preparation and purification of the ordinary nature. Page 90 × For Sri ...
... Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and the eightfold Path all right … 19 “Western philosophies (including everyday common sense)”, writes Glenn Ward, “revolve around an illusory metaphysics of presence. This can be found in myths about ‘essence’ ...
... and Saw. Page 150 A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helena went, perhaps to Heaven. Thus wagged on the surreal ...
... either be confined to the performance of the rites of worship and the prescribed duties of life rigorously ordained by the Hindu Shastra or, as in the Buddhistic discipline, must be guided along the eightfold path to the supreme practice of the works of compassion which lead towards the practical annihilation of self in the good of others. In the end, in any severe and pure Jnanayoga, all works must be abandoned ...
... of self-discipline by which to grow out of the lower into the higher life and which necessarily includes a rule of action and of relations with our fellowmen and other beings, endeavour in the eightfold path or the law of faith, love and purity or any other such revelation of the nature of the divine in life. Then because every tendency in man has its collective as well as its individual aspect, because ...
... effort of the race or by some great and illumined individual mind who embodies the desire and seeking of the race. The Vedic law becomes a convention and a Buddha appears with his new rule of the eightfold path and the goal of Nirvana; and it may be remarked that he propounds it not as a personal invention, but as the true rule of Aryan living constantly rediscovered by the Buddha, the enlightened mind ...
... Christlikeness. [Krishna in] the Gita insists on sādharmya , gives himself as an example, and tells Arjuna that many before him from ancient times reached to it. Buddha in teaching karuṇā , the eightfold path, the rejection of sanskaras, gave it as an ideal to all true followers of his path, thus placing before them not only his own path but his own example. All this is trash and humbug? Christ and ...
... Chancellor, presents beautifully and in a comprehensive manner, the basics of human values, the illumination of our intellect, the essential unity of all faiths and religions, the pursuit of the eightfold path (Astahgayoga). The emblem also contains the motto of the institute, a commandment from the convocation advice of the ancient Vedic gurus in the Gurukulas: "Satyam Vada, Dharmam Cara"—"Speak the ...
... Christlikeness. [Krishna in] the Gita insists on sadharmya , gives himself as an example, and tells Arjuna that many before him from ancient times reached to it. Buddha in teaching karuna , the eightfold path, the rejection of sanskaras, gave it as an ideal to all true followers of his path, thus placing before them not only his own path but his own example. All this is trash and humbug? Christ and ...
... Vedic religion. It also seemed to be a sharp new beginning. But the ideal of nirvana came to be perceived as a negative and exclusive statement of the highest Vedantic spiritual experience. The eightfold path also came to be perceived as an austere sublimation of the Vedic notion of the Right, Truth, and Law, which was followed as the way to immortality. The strongest note of Mahayana Buddhism which ...
... 96,99, 100 earth evolution 14; see also evolution earth-life 100 earth-nature 80; see also Nature ego 54,80,88,90,96 ego-consciousness 53 ego-sense 42, 43 eightfold path 43 energy-substance, grades of 66 Essays on the Git ā 3, 92 evolution 24, 26, 48, 50, 59, 60, 64, 65, 71, 76, 77, 85, 88, 89, 100; lower 28; of divine life 23; supramental 98; ...
... progress that is demanded. A new truth, a more perfect law of living becomes imperative. Page 121 The Vedic Law becomes a convention and Buddha appears and propounds a new rule of the eightfold path of the goal of Nirvana, and it may be remarked that he propounds it not as a personal invention but as a true rule of Aryan living, constantly re-discovered by the Buddha, the enlightened mind ...
... religion. Buddhism seemed also to be a sharp new beginning. But the ideal of nirvana came to be perceived as a negative and exclusive statement of the highest Vedantic spiritual experience. The eightfold path also came to be perceived as an austere sublimation of the Vedic notion of the Right, Truth, and Law, which was followed as the way to immortality. The strongest note of Mahayana Buddhism which ...
... concentration which is a great contribution of Buddhism. It got entangled, as other systems of psychological disciplines also did, into the regions of the vital being and often neglected the eightfold path for the grace of the various powers of the Buddhistic pantheon. Buddhism accepts rebirth as a necessary corollary to the doctrine of Karma which renders the temporary subject to re- actions of ...
... and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell. From St. Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven. Thus wagged ...
... able to glimpse the supermind. And that is a promise. V The canto on "The Awakened One (The Buddha)", refers to the Four Truths and the Eightfold Noble Path, and the Mother explains them succinctly. The eighth and last stage of the Path, Correct Contemplation, she defines as "Egoless thought concentrated on the essence of things, on the inmost truth and on the goal to be attained."... the remedy, in its essentials, is no less broadly relevant our own fear-haunted age. According to the Buddha, the extremes of asceticism and self-indulgence are to be shunned in favour of the Middle Path that leads to liberation and peace. *An English translation by Nolini Kanta Gupta was serialised in The Advent from November 1960 to February 1965. Canto 24 ("Craving"), omitted in the earlier... beauty, an ardent and creative life. Again, for the Mother, Nirvana is not annihilation pure and simple, but "the disappearance of the ego into the splendour of the Supreme". The canto on "The Path" is full of useful advice. But the Mother feels that in our time something more is called for. During the last few centuries, there has been phenomenal intellectual development; there has been witnessed ...
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