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            Four Noble TruthsNoble Eightfold Path The Dhammapada
            Thich Nhat HanhAjahn Sumedho Lama Surya Das
            Zen Zen PoetryMahamudra 
            Ajahn ChahJoseph GoldsteinSister Ayya Khema

      FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
      The Four Noble Truths represent the core of 
      the teachings of the Buddha, and are as follows: 
      The First Noble Truth 
      Unsatisfactoriness and suffering exist and
      are universally experienced. 
      The Second Noble Truth 
      Desire and attachment are the causes of 
      unsatisfactoriness and suffering. 
      The Third Noble Truth 
      There is an end to 
      unsatisfactoriness and suffering. 
      The Fourth Noble Truth
      The end can be attained by
      journeying on the Noble Eightfold Path. 
       
      NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH
      Right Understanding
      Right Thinking
      Right Speech
      Right Action
      Right Livelihood
      Right Effort
      Right Mindfulness
      Right Concentration
      1. Right View
      See things as they truly are without delusions or distortions
      for all things change. Develop wisdom by knowing how things
      work, knowing oneself and others.
      2. Right Intention
      Wholehearted resolution and dedication to overcoming the 
      dislocation of self-centered craving through the development 
      of loving kindness, empathy and compassion.
      3. Right Speech
      Abstinence from lies and deceptions, backbiting, idle 
      babble and abusive speech. Cultivate honesty and
      truthfulness; practice speech that is kind and benevolent.
      Let your words reflect your desire to help, not harm others.
      4.Right Action
      Practice self-less conduct that reflects the highest 
      statement of the life you want to live. Express conduct
      that is peaceful, honest and pure showing compassion 
      for all beings.
      5. Right Livelihood
      Avoidance of work that causes suffering to others or that
      makes a decent, virtuous life impossible. Do not engage
      in any occupation that opposes or distracts one from the
      path. Love and serve our world through your work.
      6. Right Effort
      Seek to make the balance between the exertion of following 
      the spiritual path and a moderate life that is not over-zealous. 
      Work to develop more wholesome mind states, while gently 
      striving to go deeper and live more fully.
      7. Right Mindfulness
      Through constant vigilance in thought, speech and action 
      seek to rid the mind of self-centered thoughts that separate 
      and replace them with those that bind all beings together.
      Be aware of your thoughts, emotions, body and world as they 
      exist in the present moment. Your thoughts create your reality.
      8. Right Concentration
      Through the application of meditation and mental discipline seek
      to extinguish the last flame of grasping consciousness and develop
      an emptiness that has room to embrace and love all things.
       
      ON THE TREASURY OF THE TRUE DHARMA EYE 
      Midnight. No waves,
      no wind, the empty boat
      is flooded with moonlight.
      ~Dogen