The Noble Eightfold Path is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths they serve as a guide for us to be good. It doesn’t necessarily to follow step by step instead they are the best principles to make our relationship to each other more closely and peacefully. The Noble Eightfold paths are: Right to view, Right to intention, Right to speech, Right Action, Right livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
Out of the eight limbs of Noble Eightfold Path three limbs form the bases for the Sila which are namely: Right to speech, Right Action, and Right livelihood. These three limbs of Noble Eightfold Path regulate the bodily and the verbal action of a person. Although we are dealing with verbal and physical acts, all of these originate from the mind itself. The actions of the mind, speech and body occur in such rapid succession that there seems to be no interval in between. As soon as a thought has arisen, we find ourselves speaking or doing something. We find that we cannot control speech and bodily behavior fast enough to refrain from harmful speech and action. But sati (mindfulness) on the mind renders it alert to its own actions of speech and body. The purpose of sila is to refrain from hurting others by way of harmful speech and action - We react to our environment in such a habitual way that we may already have hurt others before we realize what has happened in the mind.
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