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title: '[⁕](/) The Eightfold Path'
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date: 2026-08-12
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Traditional: <https://buddhism.net/posts/buddhism-for-all/b601-the-noble-eightfold-path/>

- Full view (sammā-diṭṭhi)
- Full intention (sammā-saṅkappa)
- Full speech (sammā-vācā)
- Full action (sammā-kammanta)
- Full livelihood (sammā-ājīva)
- Full effort (sammā-vāyāma)
- Full mindfulness (sammā-sati)
- Full samadhi (sammā-samādhi)

<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](eight.md)
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