1.RIGHT VIEW or
RIGHT UNDERSTANDING.
This means knowing
the Four Noble Truths .The First Noble Truth is
the knowledge that ALL that has been CREATED is
IMPERMANENT. And whatever is impermanent is
inherently ILL. And what is impermanent and ill
is SELFLESS.
Two is the
knowledge that the arising of ill is based on
ignorance and it is perpetuated by the craving
and intoxication for sensuality and sensations,
becoming and rebecoming, delusion and ignorance.
Three is
the knowledge that the CEASING of this ill that
has arisen, the stopping of all future becomings,
is Nirvana. True Reality realized, freed of this
ill.
Four is the
knowledge of the Eightfold Noble Path that leads
to the cessation of this ill and to winning the
goal: Nirvana. True Permanent State of Self,
Permanent Changeless Absolute Reality ITSELF,
Suchness, Perfect Wisdom.
2. RIGHT THINKING or RIGHT AIM
This means to aspire to attain realization of
Perfect Wisdom, the Ultimate True Permanent
Reality. To abstain from all evil acts of
thought. To attain the total destruction of all
cravings. To renounce all manifesting, all
constructions, all that is 'created'
make-believe.
3.RIGHT SPEECH
To abstain from all
lying speech, all perjurious speech, all evil
abusive speech and all frivolous speech.
4.RIGHT ACTION
To abstain from all killing of all creatures. To
abstain from all stealing. To abstain from all
sensual and sexual misconduct. To abstain from
all evil acts. To abstain from all forms of
intoxication.
5.RIGHT LIVING
To abstain from all evil ways of living; to
abstain from all evil methods of livelihood.
6.RIGHT EFFORT
In loving kindness
for ALL Beings, compassion and pity for ALL
creatures
7.RIGHT MINDFULNESS
To grow revulsion for the world, seeing it for
the decaying creation that it is, and to grow
dispassion, total detachment, calm, tranquility,
seeing that everything is not Self. To disregard
all that is perceived, remaining aloof from both
the pleasures as well as the pains arising from
the creation of senses and sensuality.
8.RIGHT CONCENTRATION
The Seven Links of Enlightenment
to cultivate begin with MINDFULNESS,
contemplating body and feelings, mind and mental
states, thought and ideas, ardent, clearly
conscious of them and mindful of them so as to
control the covetousness and dejection common in
the world; followed by INVESTIGATION of the
Dharma, learning and remembering the doctrine
that leads to True Reality, the Uncreated;
followed by ENERGY of effort; followed by ZEST;
then TRANQUILITY; then CONCENTRATION; and
finally EQUANIMITY.
The Five Controlling Factors
are: The Power of
Faith, the Power of Energy, the Power of
Mindfulness, the Power of Concentration, and the
Power of Insight.
The Basis of Psychic Power
are the features of Desire, Energy, Thought and
Investigation, together with the co-factors of
Concentration and Struggle, with the focus of
will: 'I WILL win, attain, realize and abide in
Nirvana, the Deathless, the Unborn, True
Permanent Absolute Reality Realized, right here
and right now.' And the practice that leads to
the cultivation of Psychic Power to win the goal
is the Eightfold Noble Path.
The Three Controlling
Faculties are:
The Consciousness that says: I shall know the
unknown, the Unborn, the Uncreated, ALL of what
is to be known, THE True Permanent State of
Reality; then followed by the Consciousness of
Knowing; and then followed by the Consciousness
of One who HAS the knowing.
The True Permanent
State of Reality is Nirvana, THAT which
is the Unborn, the Unmade, the
Unmanifested, the Not-Made, the
Unconditioned, the Truth, the Uncreated,
the Unconstructed, the Not-Created, the
Subtle, the Stable, the Undecaying, the
Unaging, the Undying, the Deathless, the
Taintless, the Peace, the Bliss, the
Purity, the Excellent, the Perfection
and Grandeur of Wisdom, the State of
Freedom from Ill, the Release from Ill,
the Nameless, the Serenity and Purity of
Absolute Changeless Reality ITSELF, the
Norm, the Wonderful, the Goal, the REAL.
In short, THE END – what always
was, not compounded, permanent and IS with ALL
that has been CREATED, compounded, impermanent
and fleeting, CEASING TO BE. Existence, with its
realms of sense, form and formlessness, the
physical universe and all realms from the hells
to the heavens ARE ALL CONSTRUCTIONS.
