The Eightfold Path is the road-map for The Fourth Noble Truth, which leads to the cessation of dukkha. The Eightfold Path is grouped in three sections:

1. Wisdom

Right Understanding
Right Aspiration

2. Morality

Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood

3. Concentration

Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration

Although the eightfold path appears to be a sequentially ordered list, the categories are not chronological steps along a pathway; they should arise together, and flow naturally along the pathway.

I’ll use future posts to delve more deeply into each of the eight ‘steps’ listed above (as I understand them….).