Noble Truth And The Noble 8-Fold Path Summary
He laid out the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eight-fold Path: The cause and cure of evil and suffering, for the spiritual development of humanity.
The First Noble Truth: the human condition includes suffering, because life strays from spiritual reality.
The Second Noble Truth: we cause much of our own suffering, by indulging material concerns, rather than those of pure spirit. All forms of selfishness tend to separate us from others, life and reality.
The Third Noble Truth: Suffering will cease when we overcome these misleading, and meaningless desires. People should shun attachment to the things of this world.
The Fourth Noble Truth: explains how to accomplish this through the Middle Way of the Noble Eight- Fold Path.
Right Knowledge: a person needs principles and values to form a wise life plan.
Right Aspirations: The heart and the head must agree to follow the plan. Avoid being tempted.
Right Speech: People should change their speech and thinking toward truth and charity.
Right Behavior: Five Precepts help us along our path. Do not kill, steal, lie, be unchaste, or drink …show more content…
The leader of the Order was there with a few Elders. At times two or three Essene women, initiate prophetesses, were admitted to the mysterious ceremony. Bearing torches and palms, they greeted the new initiate, who was clothed in white linen, as ‘Bridegroom and King,’ whom they had foretold and whom they now saw for the first time. Then the head of the Order, ordinarily a man of one hundred years (Josephus says that the Essenes lived to a very advanced age), presented the golden chalice to him, the symbol of supreme initiation, which held the wine of the Lord's vineyard, symbol of divine inspiration. Some said that Moses had drunk from it with the Seventy. Others believed that it dated back to Abraham, who received from Melchizedek this same initiation with the elements of bread and
The First Noble Truth: the human condition includes suffering, because life strays from spiritual reality.
The Second Noble Truth: we cause much of our own suffering, by indulging material concerns, rather than those of pure spirit. All forms of selfishness tend to separate us from others, life and reality.
The Third Noble Truth: Suffering will cease when we overcome these misleading, and meaningless desires. People should shun attachment to the things of this world.
The Fourth Noble Truth: explains how to accomplish this through the Middle Way of the Noble Eight- Fold Path.
Right Knowledge: a person needs principles and values to form a wise life plan.
Right Aspirations: The heart and the head must agree to follow the plan. Avoid being tempted.
Right Speech: People should change their speech and thinking toward truth and charity.
Right Behavior: Five Precepts help us along our path. Do not kill, steal, lie, be unchaste, or drink …show more content…
The leader of the Order was there with a few Elders. At times two or three Essene women, initiate prophetesses, were admitted to the mysterious ceremony. Bearing torches and palms, they greeted the new initiate, who was clothed in white linen, as ‘Bridegroom and King,’ whom they had foretold and whom they now saw for the first time. Then the head of the Order, ordinarily a man of one hundred years (Josephus says that the Essenes lived to a very advanced age), presented the golden chalice to him, the symbol of supreme initiation, which held the wine of the Lord's vineyard, symbol of divine inspiration. Some said that Moses had drunk from it with the Seventy. Others believed that it dated back to Abraham, who received from Melchizedek this same initiation with the elements of bread and