1 A Road To Ultimate Happiness
2 The Ultimate Happiness is NIRVANA the unconditioned state of Perfect Peace, Perfect Wisdom Perfect Freedom
3 The Road Or Way is known as The Noble Eightfold Path
4 To Reach The Goal One has to * Practice Morality * Cultivate Mental Cultivation * Develop Wisdom
5 Noble Eightfold Path – The Middle Way * MORALITY – Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood * CONCENTRATION – Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration * WISDOM – Right Understanding, Right Thought
6 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – Knowledge of the Four Noble Truths ( The Truth of Suffering, the Cause of Suffering, the End of Suffering and the Way to the End of Suffering )
7 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Understanding of things as they really are The nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions
8 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Three Characteristics of Life ( All compounded things are impermanent, subject to suffering and without a Self )
9 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – Law of Dependent Origination ( All phenomena are relative, conditioned states and do not arise independently of supportive conditions. )
10 2RIGHT THOUGHT Thoughts of detachment from worldly pleasures rather than being selfishly attached to them
11 2RIGHT THOUGHT – Thoughts of benevolence, harmlessness, selflessness Thoughts filled with love and compassion
12 3 RIGHT SPEECH – No Lying, No Slander, No Harsh Speech, No Frivolous Talk
13 3 RIGHT SPEECH – Truthful speech, kind and harmonious speech, meaningful and beneficial speech
14 4 RIGHT ACTION – No Killing, No Stealing, No Sexual Misconduct
15 4 RIGHT ACTION – Kind and compassionate action, generosity and charity, contentment and respect for personal relationship
16 5 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD – No trading in human beings, in weapons, in flesh, in intoxicating drinks and drugs, in poisons.
17 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Cultivate a positive attitude and have enthusiasm in the things we do
18 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to reject evil that has arisen in the mind Effort to prevent the arising of evil in the mind
19 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to develop unarisen good in the mind Effort to maintain the good which has arisen in the mind
20 7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS Mindfulness of the body Mindfulness of the feelings
21 7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS – Mindfulness of the t houghts Mindfulness of the mind states
22 8 RIGHT CONCENTRATION – Developing one-pointedness of the mind Concentrating, entering and remaining in in the jhanas ( deep mental absorption states )
23 The End With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin May We All Walk The Path To Nibbanic Bliss – To Ultimate Happiness and Perfect Peace