..續本文上一頁er understanding, whatever one says will be right speech that is pleasing to hear, mild and to the point.
One will avoid physical actions that harm others. By abstaining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct and the use of intoxicants one ensures that one”s bodily actions are right actions.
And in livelihood as well one is careful not to harm others by disturbing their peace and harmony, nor will one choose a means of support that encourages people to act wrongly and so to harm themselves. In this way, one practices right livelihood.
And now the mental efforts that one makes will be right. One does not allow new vices to enter the mind and strives to eliminate the old ones. One generates previously lacking virtues and strives to strengthen existing ones.
By understanding truth in its entirety, the mind becomes fully awakened to reality. Thus one develops right awareness.
And by maintaining awareness of the reality within from moment to moment, one achieves right concentration of mind.
In this way, by actually walking along the Eightfold Path, the meditator witnesses directly the Noble Truth of the way out of suffering. Practicing this way the meditator stops generating new saṅkhārās, new reactions that condition and defile the mind. At the same time he allows old conditionings to arise and be eradicated. Little by little he purifies the mind until within this very life he experiences nibbāna-the stage beyond the conditioned world of senses. He witnesses the Noble Truth of the cessation of suffering.
Thus one experiences all four Noble Truths directly, and life becomes really fruitful.
Come, O” meditators! Let us awaken to an understanding of truth in all its aspects by training ourselves to observe objectively the sensations that arise from moment to moment within the mental-physical structure. Let us live a life of full understanding in order to witness all the Four Noble Truths, and to attain the goal of real happiness, real peace.
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