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1. Right view

-all things will change

-seeing things as they actually are

-all beings are subject to suffering

2. Right intention

-mental energy that controls our actions

-commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement

-the intention of renunciation (resistance to the pull of desire

-the intention of goodwill

-the intention of harmlessness

3. Right speech

-ethical conduct is veiwed as a guideline to moral discipline

-mental purification can only be acheived through cultivation of ethical conduct

-words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start wars or create peace

-to abstain from false speech, slanderoous speech, harsh words, idle chatter and lies.

4. Right action

-the body as a natural means of expression.

-deeds that involve bodily action

-to abstain form harming sentient beings, especially from taking a life

-to abstain from taking what is not given

-to abstain form sexual misconduct

5. Right livelihood

-one should earn one's living in a righteous way

-wealth should be gained legally and peacefully

-this condemns: dealing in weapons, dealing in living beings, working in meat production and butchery, and selling intoxicants and poisons

6. Right effort

-mental energy is the force behing right efforts

-to prevent bad things that are happening

-to make good things happen

7. Right mindfulness

-controlled and perfect faculty of cognition

-to see things as they are, with clear consciousness

-contemplation of the body

-contemplation of feeling

-contemplation of the state of mind

-contemplation of the phenomena

8. Right concentration

-the development of a mental force tha occurs in natural consciousness

-one-pointedness of mind

-practice of meditation

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