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The Noble Eightfold Path (Sanskrit: आर्याष्टाङ्गमार्ग, romanized: āryāṣṭāṅgamārga) or Eight Right Paths (Sanskrit: अष्टसम्यङ्मार्ग, romanized: aṣṭasamyaṅmārga) is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth, in the form of nirvana.

The Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right samadhi ('meditative absorption or union'; alternatively, equanimous meditative awareness).

In early Buddhism, these practices started with understanding that the body-mind works in a corrupted way (right view), followed by entering the Buddhist path of self-observance, self-restraint, and cultivating kindness and compassion; and culminating in dhyana or samadhi, which reinforces these practices for the development of the body-mind. In later Buddhism, insight (prajñā) became the central soteriological instrument, leading to a different concept and structure of the path, in which the "goal" of the Buddhist path came to be specified as ending ignorance and rebirth.

The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal summaries of the Buddhist teachings, taught to lead to Arhatship. In the Theravada tradition, this path is also summarized as sila (morality), samadhi (meditation) and prajna (insight). In Mahayana Buddhism, this path is contrasted with the Bodhisattva path, which is believed to go beyond Arhatship to full Buddhahood.

In Buddhist symbolism, the Noble Eightfold Path is often represented by means of the dharma wheel (dharmachakra), in which its eight spokes represent the eight elements of the path.

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The Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00639A

One day sitting

Happiness, Right Effort, Offering, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Patience, Heart Sutra,...
Oct 03 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00708A

Ceremony

Shosan, Forgiveness, Right Effort, Silence, Practice Period, Gratitude, Peace...
Jun 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00686A

Women's Sitting

Posture, Right Effort, Culture, Lineage, Beginners, Vow, Religion
Mar 01 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Numerous Dharma Gates: Elementary School Buddhists

Serial: BZ-00685A

Lecture

Vow, Mindfulness, Right Speech, Right Effort, Concentration, Daily Life, Peace, Anger...
Feb 22 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism: Precepts and Self/No Self

Serial: BZ-00280

Class 3 of 5

Right Speech, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Bell, Precepts, Mindfulness, Right...
Jan 30 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Avatamsaka Sutra: The Ten Stages

Serial: BZ-00273

Class 2 of 4

Right Effort, Mindfulness, Light-and-Darkness, Concentration, Culture, Liberation,...
Nov 14 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

“Engaged”: Webster’s as a Buddhist Text

Serial: BZ-00972B

Lecture

Fox, Four Noble Truths, Priest, Right Speech, Right Effort, Funeral, Vow, Soto Zen,...
Aug 17 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

The Eightfold Path

Serial: BZ-00695A

One-Day Sitting

Eightfold Path, Concentration, Right Speech, Mindfulness, Four Noble Truths, Right...
Nov 11 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Morality and Right Action

Fox, causation, Precepts, Karma, Right Speech, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Right Effort,...
Nov 03 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Wholehearted Presence in Zen Practice

Right Effort, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Letting Go, Realization, Separation, Bowing,...
Jun 23 1990
Unknown

Baseball and Effort

Serial: BZ-00380A

Saturday Lecture

Dream World, Non-duality, Right Effort, Continuous Practice, Patience, Mahayana,...
Jul 29 1989
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice and Activity: Bowing and Work

Bowing, Passions, Karma, Right Effort, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Nature, Demons,...
Jan 31 1987

The Subtle Touch of Non-Self-Centered Activity

Serial: BZ-00875A

Forms of Zen, Saturday Lecture

No-Self, Silent Illumination, Right Effort, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Ego, Chanting, Bell...
Apr 19 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Present Practice with Impermanent Time

Right Effort, Practice Period, Concentration, Emptiness, Intention
Feb 23 1984

Eight Ways of an Enlightened Person I

Serial: BZ-00398

Lecture

Eight Awarenesses, Lay, Demons, Right Effort, Equanimity, Mahayana, Passions,...
Jun 25 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-00017

Eight Aspects of Enlightenment, One-Day Sitting

Parinirvana Sutra, Enlightenment, Eight Aspects, Buddha, Eight Aspects, Right Effort...
Feb 13 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Right Effort and Right Thought

Serial: BZ-00026A

Saturday Lecture

Right Effort, Right Thought, Noble Eightfold Path, Study, Focus, Right Effort,...
Nov 15 1980
Berkeley Zen Center

November 15, 1980, Serial No. 01061

Right Effort, Monastic Practice, Sixth Patriarch, Soto Zen, Daily Life, American,...
Nov 15 1980
Berkeley Zen Center

November 8, 1980, serial no. 00027B

Serial: BZ-00027B

Saturday Lecture

Right Effort, Discrimination, Concentration, Gratitude, Dragons, Liberation, Greed...
Nov 08 1980
Berkeley Zen Center

November 8,1980, Serial No. 01060

Study Period, Eight Aspects, Right Effort, Discrimination, Concentration, Samadhi,...
Nov 08 1980
Berkeley Zen Center

Study Period and Sesshin

Serial: BZ-01511B

Saturday Lecture

Study Period, Eight Aspects, Right Effort, Eight Awarenesses, Discrimination,...
Nov 08 1980
Berkeley Zen Center

The Nature of Mind, Serial 00069

Buddha Nature, Sutra, Non-duality, Concentration, Right Effort, Avalokiteshvara,...
Feb 05 1980

Unity Within the Present Moment

Realization, Concentration, Buddha Nature, Right Effort, Building, Subject-and-Object...
Dec 13 1979

Mountains of Mindful Unity

Concentration, Emotions, Right Effort, Separation, Realization, Suffering, Oneness,...
Dec 13 1979

Foundation Practices Seminar, Serial 00075

Buddha Nature, Right Effort, Renunciation, Greed, Conversation, Impermanence,...
Feb 24 1978
1 and 2
New York City

Balancing Presence: The Middle Path

Right Speech, Right Effort, Silence, Mindfulness, Hate, Balance, Patience,...
Oct 1971

Wholehearted Sitting in Stillness

Concentration, Right Effort, Instruction, Pain, Composure, Mindfulness, Observe,...
May 08 1971

Zen Breathing: Harmonizing Mind and Body

Breath, Oneness, Right Effort, Emotions, Discrimination, Consciousness, Pain,...
May 03 1971

Embodied Enlightenment Through Practice

Right Effort, Religion
Oct 19 1969

Unknown Title, serial, no. 00306B

Serial: BZ-00306B

Speaker identified with the assistance of Shosan Victoria Austin.

Addiction, Right Effort, Culture, Building, Discrimination, confusion, Mindfulness,...
Tassajara

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