Title page 2 Contents 4 Introduction 5 The Noble Eightfold Path and its Factors Explained 8 Preface 8 I. Right View 9 A. Right View on the ownership of one’s kamma 9 1. All beings are the owners of their kamma. 10 2. The heirs to their kamma 19 3. Born of their kamma 21 4. Related to their kamma 22 5. Abide supported by their kamma [13] 23 Refuge in other religions 26 6. “Whatever kamma they shall do, whether good or evil, of that they will be the heirs” 31 B. Right View regarding the Ten Subjects 32 1. “There is (moral significance in) almsgiving” [[9] 33 2. “There is (moral significance in) large offerings” 33 3. “There is (moral significance in) small gifts” 33 4. “There is the result and fruit of good and bad deeds” 33 5–6. “There is (moral significance in what is done to) one’s mother and to one’s father” [[0] 34 7. “There are beings of instantaneous rebirth” 34 8. “There is this world” 35 9. “There is another world” [[3] 35 10. “There are in the world ascetics and brahmins of right attainment, of right practise, who having realised by their own super-knowledge (the truth regarding) this world and other worlds, make it known to others” 36 C. Right View of the Four Noble Truths 40 1. Right View of the Truth of Suffering 40 Attachment to sensuality and the troubles caused thereby 41 Oppression by kamma-formations (saṅkhārā) 41 Oppression by instability (vipariṇāma) 42 Oppression by the painfulness of suffering 43 Oppression by burning (santāpa) 43 2. Right View of the Causal Arising of Suffering 44 3. Right View of the Cessation of Suffering 44 4. Right View of the Path Leading to the Cessation of Suffering 44 II. Right Thought [[0] 45 1. Thoughts of Renunciation 45 2. Thoughts of Non-Harming 45 3. Thoughts of Non-Violence 46 III. Right Speech 46 IV. Right Action 48 V. Right Livelihood 49 VI. Right Effort 51 1. Regarding what is unwholesome 54 2. Regarding what is unwholesome 54 3. Regarding what is wholesome 54 4. Regarding what is wholesome 55 VII. Right Mindfulness 55 1. The application of mindfulness to contemplate the body (kāyānupassanā-satipaṭṭhāna) 56 2. The application of mindfulness to contemplate feeling (vedanānupassanā-satipaṭṭhāna) 56 3. The application of mindfulness to contemplate mind (cittānupassanā-satipaṭṭhāna) 57 4. The application of mindfulness to contemplate dhammas (dhammānupassanā-satipaṭṭhāna) [[4] 57 VIII. Right Concentration 58 Practising the Path 61 The Three Rounds and the Four Kinds of Wandering-On 61 Path-Factors and Rounds 63 The First, Second, and Third Levels of Views 65 Forming the Path into Three Groups 68 How to Establish the Morality Group 70 The five conditions for killing living creatures 73 The five conditions for taking what is not given 73 The four conditions/or wrong conduct in sexual pleasures 74 The four conditions for false speech 74 The four conditions for tale-bearing 74 The three conditions for harsh talk 75 The two conditions for useless chatter 75 How to Establish the Concentration Group 76 How to Establish the Wisdom Group 80 Right View 80 Right Thought 86 The Need for Effort 86 How to Establish the Noble Eightfold Path 88 Notes 91
