Noble Eightfold Path
The Noble Eightfold Path forms the core of the Buddha's teachings and shows the way by which man can free himself from the sorrowful wheel of rebirths (samskara) and no longer needs another earthly embodiment. This requires purification of the astral body, for it is the lower urges and desires of the astral body that become man's fate (karma) and drag him down again and again to new earthly births. In the course of purification of the astral body, it takes on an increasingly orderly form, in particular the organs of the astral body, the lotus flowers (chakras), are harmoniously formed, become active and begin to turn. The work on the astral body can start from different lotus flowers; the Noble Eightfold Path aims at the regulated formation of the sixteen-petalled lotus flower in the larynx region. The Noble Eightfold Path is divided into the following stages:
- Right opinion or right view
- Right judgement or thinking
- Right speech
- Right action
- Right livelihood or right occupation
- Right effort, right habit
- Right memory or right mindfulness
- Right concentration or contemplation (meditation)
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?, GA 10 (1993), ISBN 3-7274-0100-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Das Lukas-Evangelium, GA 114 (1985), S 66 ff., Dritter Vortrag, Basel, 17. September 1909 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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