Episode 110 - Two Paths Before You

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Buddhism, one could say, is the gradual path to happiness. The essence of all the teachings of Buddha can be summed up by the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. The Noble Truths reveal Buddha’s realization that life is pervaded by suffering, the cause of suffering are the toxins in the mind like attachment, aversion and ignorance, and that there is a solution to all suffering. The Eightfold Path is contained within the Fourth Noble Truth and is the guide on how exactly to gradually end our sufferings and reveal an authentic, stable happiness from within. Buddha reveals in the Four Noble Truths that, specifically, life is inseparably mixed with something he calls dukkha. The Pali word dukkha is often translated as suffering, but it means something deeper than suffering and pain. It refers to a basic unsatisfactoriness running through our lives, the lives of all but the buddhas. Sometimes this unsatisfactoriness manifests as sorrow, grief, disappointment or pain. Usually dukka is a sense that things are never quite right, never really meet our expectations. There is an agitation of wanting something more. The eight practices of the Eightfold Path are Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. The Eightfold Path contains three basic parts: ethical discipline, mental discipline, and wisdom. Buddha entitled these eight practices the Noble Path. When we think of a path <span style= "font-weight

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