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 • Oct. 15, 2021

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

From The Guardian • May 26, 2019

Either way, this introduction to the Buddha's Eightfold Path is often clever and occasionally exasperating.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2015

Schumacher’s theoretical economy is founded on the ideal of “Right Livelihood,” one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

So is the Eightfold Path which brings to peace;      By lower or by upper heights it goes.

From The Light of Asia by Arnold, Edwin, Sir