This document outlines the Buddhist concept of reaching ultimate happiness or Nirvana through practicing the Noble Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold Path consists of three aspects: morality, concentration, and wisdom. It describes each component in detail, including right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Following this path through moral discipline, mental cultivation, and developing wisdom can lead one to the unconditioned state of perfect peace, wisdom, and freedom of Nirvana.
2. The Ultimate Happiness is NIRVANA the unconditioned state of Perfect Peace, Perfect Wisdom Perfect Freedom
3. The Road Or Way is known as The Noble Eightfold Path
4. To Reach The Goal One has to * Practice Morality * Cultivate Mental Cultivation * Develop Wisdom
5. 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
6. 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 )
7. 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Understanding of things as they really are The nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions
8. 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Three Characteristics of Life ( All compounded things are impermanent, subject to suffering and without a Self )
9. 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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12. 3 RIGHT SPEECH – No Lying, No Slander, No Harsh Speech, No Frivolous Talk
13. 3 RIGHT SPEECH – Truthful speech, kind and harmonious speech, meaningful and beneficial speech
14. 4 RIGHT ACTION – No Killing, No Stealing, No Sexual Misconduct
15. 4 RIGHT ACTION – Kind and compassionate action, generosity and charity, contentment and respect for personal relationship
16. 5 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD – No trading in human beings, in weapons, in flesh, in intoxicating drinks and drugs, in poisons.
17. 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Cultivate a positive attitude and have enthusiasm in the things we do
18. 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to reject evil that has arisen in the mind Effort to prevent the arising of evil in the mind
19. 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to develop unarisen good in the mind Effort to maintain the good which has arisen in the mind
20. 7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS Mindfulness of the body Mindfulness of the feelings
21. 7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS – Mindfulness of the t houghts Mindfulness of the mind states
22. 8 RIGHT CONCENTRATION – Developing one-pointedness of the mind Concentrating, entering and remaining in in the jhanas ( deep mental absorption states )
23. The End With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin May We All Walk The Path To Nibbanic Bliss – To Ultimate Happiness and Perfect Peace