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Nirvana And The Four Noble Truths

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The two ways for people to reach Nirvana was to followed the Eight fold path and the Four noble truths.

The Eight fold path described the way to end samsara as it was taught by Siddharta Gautama the Buddha. It was a practical guideline to ethnical and mental development with the goal to free one from the cycle of samsara and lead one to understand the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths, it lead to the gist of Buddhism. Great force was put on practical aspect because it was the only through practise that one can attain higher level of existence and finnaly then reach Nirvana. The various eight path were not to be understood only by a single step but they must be understood that they were connected to each other.
1. Right View …show more content…

Right View was the aspect of wisdom. It meant to see things through, to grasp the not permanent and the non perfect objects or ideas and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right View was began with the power of realising and understanding insight that all beings were subject to suffering and it ended with complete understanding of true nature of all things. Right view yields right thoughts and right actions.
2. Right Intention
Right intention could be described best as commintment to ethnical and mental self improvements. Buddha marked differently the three types of Right intentions as 1. The intention of resiting to pull aside the desire. 2. The intention of good will meaning to fight the feelings of anger and aversion and 3. The intention of harmlessness meaning not to think cruelly, violently or aggressively and must developed compassion.
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