1. 1 A Road To Ultimate Happiness

2. 2 The Ultimate Happiness is NIRVANA the unconditioned state of Perfect Peace, Perfect Wisdom Perfect Freedom

3. 3 The Road Or Way is known as The Noble Eightfold Path

4. 4 To Reach The Goal One has to * Practice Morality * Cultivate Mental Cultivation * Develop Wisdom

5. 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. 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. 7 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Understanding of things as they really are The nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions

8. 8 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – The Three Characteristics of Life ( All compounded things are impermanent, subject to suffering and without a Self )

9. 9 1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING – Law of Dependent Origination ( All phenomena are relative, conditioned states and do not arise independently of supportive conditions. )

10. 10 2RIGHT THOUGHT Thoughts of detachment from worldly pleasures rather than being selfishly attached to them

11. 11 2RIGHT THOUGHT – Thoughts of benevolence, harmlessness, selflessness Thoughts filled with love and compassion

12. 12 3 RIGHT SPEECH – No Lying, No Slander, No Harsh Speech, No Frivolous Talk

13. 13 3 RIGHT SPEECH – Truthful speech, kind and harmonious speech, meaningful and beneficial speech

14. 14 4 RIGHT ACTION – No Killing, No Stealing, No Sexual Misconduct

15. 15 4 RIGHT ACTION – Kind and compassionate action, generosity and charity, contentment and respect for personal relationship

16. 16 5 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD – No trading in human beings, in weapons, in flesh, in intoxicating drinks and drugs, in poisons.

17. 17 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Cultivate a positive attitude and have enthusiasm in the things we do

18. 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. 19 6 RIGHT EFFORT – Effort to develop unarisen good in the mind Effort to maintain the good which has arisen in the mind

20. 20 7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS Mindfulness of the body Mindfulness of the feelings

21. 21 7 RIGHT MINDFULNESS – Mindfulness of the t houghts Mindfulness of the mind states

22. 22 8 RIGHT CONCENTRATION – Developing one-pointedness of the mind Concentrating, entering and remaining in in the jhanas ( deep mental absorption states )

23. 23 The End With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin May We All Walk The Path To Nibbanic Bliss – To Ultimate Happiness and Perfect Peace