Eightfold Path

noun

, Buddhism.

1. the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation.

Example Sentences

Yet his account of the Eightfold Path is, nevertheless, within these limitations, profoundly wise.

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As we shall see, when the eightfold path has been followed to the end new powers arise in the mind, new lights stream into it.

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The Buddha often commented on the eightfold path, and we may follow one of the expositions attributed to him.

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