Traditional: https://buddhism.net/posts/buddhism-for-all/b601-the-noble-eightfold-path/

https://secularbuddhistnetwork.org/stephen-batchelor-on-a-secular-perspective-on-the-eightfold-path/

Stephen Batchelor:

The order doesn’t matter, according to Gautama you’ll have to nourish them all. https://suttacentral.net/an7.71/en/sujato?lang=en

  1. Perspective (diṭṭhi)
  2. Imagination (sankappa)
  3. Application (vāyāma)
  4. Mindfulness (sati) (I don’t think this is “Minfulness”, to me this is “Understanding”)
  5. Focus (samādhi) (Awareness)
  6. Voice (vācā) (important context: voice, not writing, was the way knowledge was shared.)
  7. Work (kammanta) (Effort?)
  8. Survival (ājīva) (Because our awareness arises necessarily as a tool of survival)

source: eight.md