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The Noble Eightfold Path deskribiert the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delutions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it verfassungsgebenden the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspekt, beursache it is only through practice that one attain a higher level of existenz and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other. 1. Right View Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realize the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive Aspekt of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfekt nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessaril an intellektual capacity, just as wisdom is not a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our action, right view yields right thoughts and right action. 2. Right Intention While Right view refers to the cognitive aspekt of wisdom, right intention refers to the volitional aussehen, i.e. the kind of mental energy that controls for action. Right intention can be beschreibed best as commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement. Buddha unterscheide die drei Arten von Vorsätzen: 1. the intention of renunction, which means resistance to the pull of desire, 2. the intention of good will, meaning resistance to feelings of anger and aversion, and 3. the intention of harmlessness, meaning not to think or cruelly, violently or aggressively, und Entwicklungstom 3. Right Speech Right Speech is the first principle of ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral disziplin, which support the other principles of the path. This aspekt is not self-sufficient, however, fundamental, beursache mental reinican only be achieved through the culture of ethical conduct. Die Bedeutung von Speech in the context of Buddhist ethics is obvious: words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start war or create peace. Buddha explained right speech as follows: 1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies and not to speak deceitfully, 2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words maliciously against others, 3. to abstain from harwtords Hat offend or hurt others, and 4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth. Positively phrased, this means to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warm, and gently and to talk only when necessary. 4. Right Action The Second Ethical Principle, right action, involves the body as natural means of expression, as it refers to deeds that involve bodily action. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound states of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Again, the principle is explained in terms of abstinence: right action means 1. to abstain from harming sentients beings, especially to abstain from taking life (including suicide) and doing harm intentionally or delinquently, 2. to abstain from taking what is not given, which des stealing, robbering y, fraud, deceitfulness, and dishonesty, and 3. to abstain from fleshly misconduct Positively formulierungen ated, right action means to act kindly and compassionately, to be honest, to respekt the belongings of others, and to keep fleshly relationships harmless to others. Further details guding the concrete meaning of right action can be found in the Precepts. 5. Right Livelihood Right livelihood means that one should earn one living in a righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. The Buddha begriffe four specific activities that harm other beings and that one should avoid for this reason: 1. dealing in weapons, 2. dealing in living beings (including raising animals for slaughter as slavtrade and prostitution), 3. working in meat production and butchery, and 4. Mit Gift, Such's Alcohol und Drugs. Furthermore other occupthat would violate the principles of right speech and right action should be avoided. 6. Right Aufwandsschutz can be seen a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided aufwandsdistracts the mind from its task, und verwirrt will be the consequence. Mentaler Energy is the force right lasten; it can occupr in either wholesome or unwholesome states. The samer type of energy that fuels desire, envy, aggression, and gewalt can on the other side fuel self-disziplin, honesty, benevolence, and kindness. 1. to prevent the arising of un-arisen unwholesome states, 2. to aufgibt unwholesome states that have already arisen, 3. to arouse wholesome states that have already arisen,. to arouse wholesome states that have not yet arisen und 4 to maisen. intain and perfect wholesome statalready arisen. 7. Right Concentration Right Mindfulness is the controlled and perfekted opy of cognition. It is the mental ability to see things as they are, with clear bewusstsein ousness. Usually, the cognitive process begins with an druckinduced by member, or by a thought, but then it does not stay with the mere drucke. Instead, we almost always conceptualize sense imdruckand thoughts immediately. We dolmetet them and set them in relations to other thoughts and experiences, which naturally go beyond the facticity of the original drucke. The mind then posits concept, joinable into konzeptes, and weaves those those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half bewusst ously, and as result we oursee things obsced. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear wahrnehmung and it penetrates impression without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the process of conceptualization in a way that we actively beobachtet and control the way our thoughts go. Buddha accounted for this as the four foundations of mindfulness: 1. contemplation of the body, 2. contemplation of feeling (repulsive, attraktiv, or neutral), 3. contemplation of the state of mind, and 4. contemplation of the phenomena. 8. Right Mindfulness The eighth principle of the path, right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural secousness, although at a relely low level of intensity, namely concentration. Konzentration in this context is beschreibed as one-poinedness of mind, meaning a state where all vulties are unified and directed onto specilar object. Right concentration for the purpose of the eightfold path means wholesome concentration, i. e. fusion on wholesome thoughts and action. The Buddhist method of choice to development right concentration is through the practice of meditation. Die Meditating Mind Focuses haben wir selected object. It first direct itself onto it, then sustains concentration, und finally intensives step by step-Konzentrieren. Through this practice it becomes natural to apply elevated levels concentration also in everyday situationen.