Eightfold Path

American  

noun

Buddhism.

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

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Example Sentences

He thanked his support groups and said that embracing the Buddhist ideologies of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path has strengthened his Catholic faith.

From Washington Post

Not to get too technical about Buddhism, but in the eightfold path to enlightenment, livelihood is in there.

From New York Times

At a deer park once called Isipatana, now Sarnath, a 35-year-old Gautama Buddha, hardly older than Christ when he climbed the hill of Calvary, revealed the eightfold path to liberation from suffering, his four noble truths and the doctrine of the impermanence of everything, including the Self.

From New York Times

Liyana also liked the eightfold path in Buddhism, and the idea of the bodhisattva, the soul who does good for others without any thought for himself or herself.

From Literature

He called his method the “eightfold way” after the Buddhist Eightfold Path to enlightenment.

From The Guardian