The Eight Fold Path

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Re: The Eight Fold Path

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I've kept the 4N and 8FP at the center of everything. All the other practice and study over the years has acted as polishing stones - grinding away bits of my mental dullness to reveal more clearly the essentiality of the 4N and 8FB.
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Mind is Empty
Emptiness is Clear Light
Clear Light is Union
Union is Great Bliss

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there is a miltiary phrase which goes Keep it simple stupid or kiss for short (wonder if the band thought of this saying?) I have heard another similar one which goes Keep it simple sister, but not having sisters it doesn't really apply to me :jumping:

the basice are always I think the most interesting thing to talk about.
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Hence My Signature.....
The Four, the Eight and the Five - these are all we need, truly, to sustain us, but they form the basis of a life-long study.
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

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Drolma wrote:Do the basics get left behind as you advance, or are they always at the core of what you do?
I don't consider the 4NT or N8fP to be basic. Rather I regard them as a summary, or like chapter headings in a book. Looking over the chapter headings you might get a rough sense of what the book is about. Then you read the book and get all the details of each chapter. Then, after, you can look at those chapter headings and be reminded of all those details.
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4NT and the N8FP are everything Buddhism is in my opinion, every sutta or Dhamma talk and practice is connected to them




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“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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