The Eightfold Path on Clubhouse

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Welcome to The Eightfold Path on Clubhouse

Here, we facilitate ONENESS. All are welcome to join, learn, and share.

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Topics we have dialogue on spans mindfulness, relationships, and navigating life with flow instead of force.
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We use general and specific ethical practices and philosophical views of Buddhism to facilitate enlightenment and provide guidance on avoiding the extremes of self-gratification on one hand, and self-mortification on the other; The MIDDLE Way.

In brief, the eight elements of the path are:

1) Correct view — An accurate understanding of the nature of things, specifically the Four Noble Truths.

2) Correct intention — Avoiding thoughts of attachment, hatred, and harmful intent

3) Correct speech — Refraining from verbal misdeeds such as lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, and senseless speech

4) Correct action — Refraining from physical misdeeds…

5) Correct livelihood — Avoiding trades which directly or indirectly harm others, such as selling slaves, weapons, animals for slaughter, intoxicants, or poisons

6) Correct effort — Abandoning negative states of mind which have already arisen, preventing negative states which have yet to arise, and sustaining positive states which have already arisen

7) Correct mindfulness — Awareness of body, feelings, thought, and phenomena (the constituents of the existing world)

8) Correct concentration — Single-mindedness.

The eight elements are portrayed not so much as prescriptions for behavior, but as qualities present in the mind of a person who has understood nirvana, the state of the cessation of suffering and the goal of Buddhism.

The nobility of the Eightfold Noble Path is not the path itself, but those who follow it.

Welcome to the eightfold path!