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The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path (unabridged)

Introduction by Urgyen Sangharakshita

Kulananda

  • Release Date: 31st Jul 2006
  • Catalogue No: NA541612
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

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Contents

The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path - An Introduction

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Chapter 1: The Nature of Existence : Perfect Vision

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Perfect Vision

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The Path of Vision and the Path of Transformation

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The Nature of Existence

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The Wheel of Life

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The Buddha

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The Path

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The Four Noble Truths

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The Three Characteristics of Conditioned Existence

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1. Conditioned Existence is Suffering

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2. Conditioned Existence is Impermanent

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3. Conditioned Existence is Devoid of True Selfhood

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Karma and Rebirth

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The Four Sunyatas

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1. Samskrta Sunyata – The Emptiness of the Conditioned

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2. Asamskrta Sunyata – The Emptiness of the Unconditioned

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3. Maha Sunyata – The Great Emptiness

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4. Sunyata Sunyata – The Emptiness of Emptiness

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Chapter 2: Reason and Emotion in the Spiritual Life

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Samyak-samkalpa – Perfect Emotion

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The negative aspect of Perfect Emotion

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Naiskramya, or ‘non-desire’

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Avyapada or ‘non-hate’

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Avihimsa or ‘non-cruelty’

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The positive aspect of Perfect Emotion

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Dana, or giving

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Maitri, or love

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Karuna, or compassion

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‘In the Mahayana form of Buddhism, that is to say...’

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Mudita, or Sympathetic Joy

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Upeksa, or tranquillity

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Sraddha, or faith and devotion

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The Sevenfold Puja

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‘The first stage of the Sevenfold Puja is puja, or worship.’

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The second stage of the Sevenfold Puja is vandana...’

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The third stage of the Sevenfold Puja is Going for Refuge...’

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The Going for Refuge section of the Sevenfold Puja is followed...

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The fifth stage of the Sevenfold Puja is Rejoicing in Merits.’

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The sixth stage, Entreaty and Supplication...’

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The seventh and last stage of the Sevenfold Puja is Transference...’

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Chapter 3: The Ideal of Human Communication – Perfect Speech

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‘Now we come to the third aspect of the Buddha’s...’

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‘There are three great phases in the historical development...’

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The four levels of Perfect Speech

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1. The level of truthfulness

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‘But then another question arises: do we really even know...’

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2. The level of affectionateness

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3. The level of helpfulness

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4. The level of promoting concord, harmony, and unity

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‘In this connection one may think of the examples...

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Chapter 4: The Principles of Ethics – Perfect Action

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The ‘decline of morals’

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Judaeo-Christian ethics

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The Buddhist criterion

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Patterns of ethical behaviour

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The Five Silas and the Five Dharmas

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‘The first of the Five Precepts is abstention from harming...’

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‘The second of the Five Precepts is abstention from taking...’

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‘The third Precept is abstention from sexual misconduct.’

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‘The fourth Precept is abstention from false speech.’

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‘The last of the Five Precepts is abstention from drink...’

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The Bhikkshu Samvarasila and Bodhisattva Samvarasila

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Total action

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Chapter 5: The Ideal Society – Perfect Livelihood

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‘Buddhism too has its day-dreams.’

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‘Our collective existence has three principal aspects...’

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‘Buddhism has various social teachings...’

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‘In the same way we find that in the political sphere...’

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‘The third aspect of our collective existence...’

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‘Having understood some of the main reasons for its inclusion...’

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Buddhists in the West have begun to realise...’

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Occupation

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Vocation

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Duration

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Chapter 6: The Conscious Evolution of Man – Perfect Effort

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The Four Exertions

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1. Preventing the arising of unarisen, unskilful mental states

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2. Eradicating arisen, unskilful mental states

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(a) The hindrance of craving for material things

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(b) The hindrance of hatred

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(c) The hindrance of restlessness and anxiety

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(d) The hindrance of sloth and torpor

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(e) The hindrance of doubt and indecision

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‘In Buddhism the mind or consciousness is often compared...’

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‘But how is one to cleanse and purify the water?’

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‘The first method consists in considering the consequences...’

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‘The second method consists in cultivating the opposite.’

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‘The third method is to allow the unskilful thoughts...’

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‘If these three methods do not succeed there is a fourth...’

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3. Developing unarisen skilful mental states

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‘Progress in meditation – progress in the attainment...’

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‘The simile for the first dhyana or higher meditative state...’

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‘As the simile of the second dhyana the Buddha asks us...’

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‘Waxing even more poetical, as the simile for the third dhyana.’

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‘The Buddhist simile for the fourth dhyana is that of...’

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4. Maintaining arisen, skilful mental states

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The Background of Perfect Effort

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Perfect Effort as conscious evolution

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Chapter 7: Levels of Awareness – Perfect Awareness

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Levels of Awareness

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1. Awareness of things

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2. Awareness of oneself

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(a) Awareness of the body and its movements

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(b) Awareness of feelings

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(c) Awareness of thought

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3. Awareness of people

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4. Awareness of reality

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Chapter 8: The Higher Consciousness – Perfect Samadhi

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Samatha, Samapatti, and Samadhi

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Samatha

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Samapatti

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Samadhi

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1. The Imageless Samadhi

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2. The Directionless Samadhi

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3. The Samadhi of the Voidness

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The Noble Eightfold Path as a Cumulative Process

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