This is the one dukkha that we have some control over. ... Just that we should simply not be controlled by our desires. ... Attaining and perfecting indifference is a process of many levels that ultimately results in the state of Nirvana, which means freedom from all worries, troubles, complexes, fabrications and ideas. ... The steps in this Eightfold Path include Right Understanding and Right Thought, which allow us to cultivate panna-wisdom. ... The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that ha...

• Word Count: 953
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In order to reach moksa, one must first realize what steps they must take to understand the ideas behind it. ... This is actually a two step process in reaching what the ultimate goal is. ... There are many steps of physical exercise to bring the body and mind under there control and away from the material world that it is engrossed in. Once they have the mind under control, they can than begin meditation. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

For a person a person to conquer the Samsaric cycle they must learn to control cravings and desires and become non-attached to people and things, in doing that you move on in the four noble truths. ... The points all the eightfold path are to be simultaneously practiced unlike the step by step process of the for noble truths. ...

• Word Count: 2168
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Siddharta Gautama abandoned his family at the age of twenty-nine to search for a way to bring to an end suffering in the world. He studied meditation with many teachers. At the age of thirty-five, Siddharta Gautama sat down beneath the shade of a tree to meditate, and stayed under it until he received enlightenment seven weeks later. He received the Great Enlightenment: the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. From this day on he was known as the Buddha. ...

• Word Count: 2687
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They lie down and touch the ground with their foreheads in every five or ten steps, in order to measure the length of their journeys and feel the power of the earth. ... I believe that by convincing me every day, it will actually influence how I behave and it is an invisible process that is undergoing every day. ... It is the most beautiful thing in the world but also the most dangerous weapon for that he can control someone easily. ... Because they did not have a lot of time to get Ansset ready for the mission, Esste had been very strict on him and used extreme strategies forcing him to grow ...

• Word Count: 2180
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. ... In this self realization process, one becomes aware of what he or she has done in order to prevent oneself from commit the act again. ... In this path, Buddha stated eight steps. ...

• Word Count: 2203
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School