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A Road ToUltimate

Happiness

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The Ultimate Happiness is

NIRVANAthe

unconditionedstate of

Perfect Peace,Perfect WisdomPerfect Freedom

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The Road Or Way is known asThe Noble Eightfold Path

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To Reach The Goal

One has to

* Practice Morality

* Cultivate Mental Cultivation* Develop Wisdom

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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

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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 )

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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Understanding of things as they really are The nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions

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1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Three Characteristics of Life ( All compounded things are impermanent, subject to suffering and without a Self )

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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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2 RIGHT THOUGHT

Thoughts of detachment from worldly pleasures rather than being selfishly attached to them

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2 RIGHT THOUGHT – Thoughts of benevolence, harmlessness, selflessnessThoughts filled with love and compassion

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3 RIGHT SPEECH – No Lying, No Slander, No Harsh Speech, No Frivolous Talk

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3 RIGHT SPEECH – Truthful speech, kind and harmonious speech, meaningful and beneficial speech

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4 RIGHT ACTION – No Killing, No Stealing, No Sexual Misconduct

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4 RIGHT ACTION – Kind and compassionate action, generosity and charity, contentment and respect for personal relationship

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5 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD – No trading in human beings, in weapons, in flesh, in intoxicating drinks and drugs, in poisons.

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6 RIGHT EFFORT – Cultivate a positive attitude and have

enthusiasm in the things we do

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6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to reject evil that has arisen in the mind Effort to prevent the arising of evil in the mind

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6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to develop unarisen good in the mind Effort to maintain the good which has arisen in the mind

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7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS Mindfulness of the body Mindfulness of the feelings

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7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS – Mindfulness of the t houghts Mindfulness of the mind states

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8 RIGHT CONCENTRATION – Developing one-pointedness of the mind Concentrating, entering and remaining in in the jhanas ( deep mental absorption states )

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The End

With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin

May We All Walk The Path To Nibbanic Bliss –

To Ultimate Happiness and Perfect Peace