The Noble Eightfold Path presents the entirety of Buddhist practice. It is the starting point for beginners and the destination for masters. In this video, we learn about the 8 components of the Path from the Buddha himself. To do so, we visit an ancient and original Buddhist story, The Shorter Elephant Footprint Simile Sutta. #buddha #buddhism #meditation #dharma #dhamma #philosophy #religion #spirituality ⭐Join the community and access exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/seeker2seeker 💰PayPal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=28CCPBHAFUUX8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ The Shorter Elephant Footprint Simile Sutta: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.027.than.html ▶ Noble Eightfold Path (Bhikkhu Bodhi) available for free: https://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/noble8path6.pdf ▶ What the Buddha Taught (Walpola Rahula Thero) ▶ The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching (Thich Nhat Hanh) Free access to Early Buddhist scripture: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.085.than.html#answer https://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used Original music by RMSounds, Simeon of S2S, and Elly. Find more brilliant music by RMSounds here: https://www.youtube.com/@RMSounds ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 2:39 Beginning of story 10:25 View + Intention 11:44 Speech + Action + Livelihood 15:38 Effort + Mindfulness + Concentration 18:00 The 4 Jhanas 21:29 The 3 Higher Knowledges AI images generated with Adobe Firefly. AI video generated with Kaiber. Read video script here: https://www.seekertoseeker.com/the-noble-eightfold-path-explained-by-buddha/

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