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# The Noble Eightfold Path

1. Right view: Understand suffering, its cause, ending, and path.
   - Mundane: Understand karma: actions have consequences across lives.
   - Supramundane: Directly understand the Four Noble Truths.
2. Right intention: Intend renunciation, goodwill, and harmlessness.
3. Right speech: Avoid lying, division, abuse, and idle chatter.
4. Right action: Avoid killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct.
5. Right livelihood: Earn without causing harm.
6. Right effort: Prevent and abandon unskillful states; develop skillful ones.
7. Right mindfulness: Clearly observe body, feeling, mind, and phenomena.
8. Right concentration: Develop a unified mind through the four jhānas.

The path is one training with eight mutually supporting factors.

## Relevant suttas

- SN 45.8 — Analysis of the Path (external text; Candana audio not currently found)
- MN 117 — The Great Forty (Candana Bhikkhu audio · 23:15)
- SN 56.11 — Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion (read here)
- Listen to SN 56.11 (Candana Bhikkhu audio · 19:41)

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