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The Middle Way and Noble Eightfold Path
The Middle Way and Noble Eightfold PathAUG/26/ 2023—AUG / 27/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. If we divide Dharma cultivation into three parts,it would be precepts, samadhi and wisdom. The purpose of the precepts is to cultivate the concentration of thoughts and mindfulness, helping people attain the samadhi by keeping the precepts. The samadhi’s function is to cultivate the consistency and stability of thought, to accomplish the amend of thoughts, to rise the wisdom beyond the world’s insights, which is finding the own wisdom in samadhi. Therefore, it can be seen from this that the purpose of practising Dharma is not simple…
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The Noble Eightfold Path
The Noble Eightfold PathAUG/19/ 2023—AUG/20/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. The Noble Eightfold Path is originally from the 37 bodhakkhiya-dharma. it is an important guide for our cultivation. What exactly is the Noble Eightfold Path? Noble Eightfold Path, Sanskrit: Ārya aṣṭāṅga mārgaḥ, in Sanskrit, Ārya (Yalia) is holy, perfect, comprehensive. The meaning of aṣṭa is the number eight, āṅga is the meaning of “item” and mārga is the way of cultivation, so the literally we call it Noble Eightfold Path, which refers to the eight methods for Buddhism cultivation and attaining the Nirvana, so it is also called eight ships, eight boats.It…
