Such giving is but selfishness and greed, But he who gives without a selfish thought Has entered on the noble eightfold path, Is purified from anger, envy, hate.
He saw the noble eightfold path that mounts From life's low levels to Nirvana's heights.
Sorrow and sorrow's cause and sorrow's ceasing, The Noble Eightfold Path that leads thereto-- 192.
Best is the Eightfold Path: of truths, the four;[1] Dispassion in the best of states sublime.
See the account of the eightfolddivision of the relics of Buddha's body in the Sacred Books of the East, vol.
The eightfold noble path of righteousness Delivers from all evil: it will bring Sweet peace of mind and leadeth to Nirvana.
We must make up our minds and walk On the eightfold noble path of righteousness.
Followers of the Eightfold Path understand that the external world is illusory and that its desires and suffering can be overcome by a noble life, guided by mental fixation on the concept of nonexistence.
In the beginning, he was merely a subject for meditation and his free assist into Paradise did not replace the personal initiative required by the Eightfold Path.
The Buddha stressed what he called the "Four Noble Truths" and the "Eightfold Path.
The Anguttara, which is a still longer collection, is arranged in numerical groups, a method of classification dear to the Hindus who delight in such computations as the four meditations, the eightfold path, the ten fetters.
The eightfold path is the road to happiness but it is the way, not the destination, and the action of the Buddha and his disciples is something beyond it.
The eightfold path is the way and the only way of salvation.
Also in the eightfold path which is essential to arhatship and nirvana the last and highest stage is sammâsaṃâdhi, right rapture or ecstasy.
As we shall see, when the eightfold path has been followed to the end new powers arise in the mind, new lights stream into it.
The Buddha often commented on the eightfold path, and we may follow one of the expositions attributed to him[466].
He condemned the extreme physical mortification of the ascetics, on the one hand, and the enjoyment of sensual pleasures on the other; pointing out and recommending the Noble Eightfold Path as the Middle Path.
The "Four Noble Truths," and the "Noble Eightfold Path".
The means which he pointed out is called the Noble Eightfold Path, viz.
And this knowledge can be got by following the noble life of the Eightfold Path.
It openeth wide, Plain for all feet to tread, easy and near, The Noble Eightfold Path; it goeth straight To peace and refuge.
So is theEightfold Path which brings to peace; By lower or by upper heights it goes.
Now the temple of Yaegaki takes its name from the words of the august song Ya-he-gaki, and therefore signifies The Temple of the Eightfold Fence.
He refused to pronounce on the whence, the whither and the nature of things, but bade his disciples walk in the eightfold path and analyse the human mind, because such analysis conduces to spiritual progress.
But in the year of his one and only war he joined the Buddhist community as a layman, and some years later he became a full member of the Order, and devoted himself to the attainment of Nirvana by the Eightfold Path.
The modern mind is apt to be impatient of the tendency of Indian thought to a numerical statement of things, the Eightfold Path, the Four Truths, and so on, but this enumeration was a mnemonic necessity in an undocumented world.
Yet his account of the Eightfold Path is, nevertheless, within these limitations, profoundly wise.
The eightfold heavenly spirits, on every side filled space: cast down at heart and grieving, they scattered flowers as offerings.
Thus perfected, Buddha then devised for the world's benefit the eightfold path, right sight, and so on, the only true path for the world to tread.
Extinction of lust, craving, and desire, and cessation of suffering are accomplished by perseverance in the noble eightfoldpath (ariyo a[t.
Then comes the perfect one and opens the safe eightfold path of right belief, etc.
To avoid confounding these paths with the eightfold path (p.
Of course the Buddhist moral code soon passed beyond the eightfold path propounded by Gautama in his first sermon (see p.
The fourfold corals form the common primary group of the class, out of which the sixfold and eightfold have developed as two diverging branches.
But it must be added, to its credit, that the most ancient Buddhism despises dreams and visions; and that the doctrine of Samadhi is of small practical importance compared with the doctrine of the noble eightfold Path.
And the Buddha replied: "The bliss of a religious life is attainable by every one who walks in the noble eightfold path.
The fourth noble truth is the eightfold path that leads to the cessation of sorrow.
Considering this, a disciple of the Dharma will see the four noble truths and walk in the eightfold path of holiness.
He should exhort the people to walk in the eightfold path of righteousness; he should comfort them in the vicissitudes of life and gladden them with the bliss of the fruit of good deeds.
The Buddha wondered why a man so near to death had built a mansion with so many apartments, and he sent Ananda to the rich Brahman to preach to him the four noble truths and the eightfold path of salvation.
Truth teaches us the noble eightfold path of righteousness, and it is a straight path easily found by the truth-loving.
He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
When the seven kinds of wisdom enlighten your mind, you will find the noble, eightfold path that leads to Nirvana.
But if thou art willing to receive spiritual treasures, and art strong enough to carry them and to keep them, I shall give thee the four truths which will teach thee the eightfold path of righteousness.
The best of ways is the eightfold (path); this is the way, there is no other that leads to the purifying of intelligence.
The five monks are converted when they hear the Four Great Truths and the Eightfold Path, and there are now six holy ones on earth, Buddha and his five disciples.
The seven kinds of Wisdom; and (6) The Noble Eightfold Path.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eightfold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
