A Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path: What Would You Add From The Ten Commandments?

R&I NV — Siddhartha Gautama, a buddha, prepared The Noble Eightfold Path as a guide to living a moral life:

• Right understanding: Understanding that the Four Noble Truths** are noble and true.

• Right thought: Determining and resolving to practice Buddhist faith.

• Right speech: Avoiding slander, gossip, lying, and all forms of untrue and abusive speech.

• Right conduct: Adhering to the idea of nonviolence (ahimsa), as well as refraining from any form of stealing or sexual impropriety.

• Right means of making a living: Not slaughtering animals or working at jobs that force you to violate others.

• Right mental attitude or effort: Avoiding negative thoughts and emotions, such as anger and jealousy.

• Right mindfulness: Having a clear sense of one’s mental state and bodily health and feelings.

• Right concentration: Using meditation to reach the highest level of enlightenment.

Questions:

1. Would you consider this list complete?
2. What would you add from The Ten Commandents in the Bible?

** The Four Noble Truths

1. Life can be dissatisfying [dukkha], and suffering is inevitable.
2. The root cause of this dissatisfaction is our desires, and our aversions.
3. We can transcend these dissatisfactions, and the suffering.
4. The Noble Eightfold Path offers us a way to transcend dissatisfaction and suffering.

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