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Introduction: In Peter Masefield’s book called “Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism,” he divides it into only three Chapters. Chapter one is named “The Spiritual Division of the Buddhist world. Chapter Two is named “The Path.” Chapter three the final chapter is named “The Goal.” Masefield uses these chapters to stage his argument. The research topic I will be discussing is Masefield argument: How does right view relate to elements of the Noble Eightfold Path? Is it something that one works towards through following other aspects of the Path, or something that one is granted by hearing the words of the Buddha? I’m going to be arguing Masefield’s point of view on the topics of right view and The Eightfold Path. I’m going give a definition of those concepts. Right View is about being wise. It’s about having wise feelings, thoughts, and beliefs.It’s understanding of things as they are. Right view reduces suffering and helps prevent escalating suffering. The Buddha emphasized that Right View is a very important part of the Buddhist path. Right View is also apart of the Eightfold Path. It’s also considered the first step of the Eightfold path as well. Eightfold Path is the understanding of the nature of suffering, the cause of suffering, and how to …show more content…

In Sirimane book she talks about four supramundane rewards of the Noble Eightfold Path and stream entry which all connects to having right view. This books also gives information on what it means to be a stream enterer and how one can notice a stream enterer. Throughout the book, Sirimane conveys descriptive text about stream entry in the Pali canon. Masefield does the same thing in his study as well. Sirimane believes and argues that stream entry requires the tearing down of the first three fetters. The first three are

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In “The Buddha’s Message” by Christopher Gowans, we are presented with an overview of the Buddha’s teaching. Gowans expounds on certain central aspects of Buddhism, namely the idea of suffering, the 4 Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and Nirvana providing examples and analogies to elucidate these ideas. In this paper, I shall argue in agreement with the sentiment that life is suffering on two main fronts, those being that I agree with the idea that the universe possesses an impermanent nature, causing happiness gained from fulfilling all desires impermanent as well and thus suffering inevitable, followed by my belief that flesh naturally begets suffering, that is, our physical existence is a source of suffering so long as we physically exist.

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These lessons are realities that an individual must overcome during an individual’s lifetime in order to achieve Nirvana. Truth number one is to live is to suffer. In translation, life is not easy and will eventually impact everyone. The second truth is suffering comes from desire; most of humanities wants can be traced directly to suffering. Human nature is said to gravitate to wanting more from life.

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There is value in each author’s viewpoint, and I hold that the authors are following The Way, in spite of the oppositional nature of their approaches. I wish to first lay out what each author means when they speak of The Way. Lao Tzu writes of The Way with a sense of cosmological significance. The Way is that which encompasses everything. The Way is deep, ancestral, and mysterious; it is nameless yet everything in harmony follows it.

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As I was reading, The Four Noble Truths, there was a quote that caught my eye, in it, it states, “Once we appreciate that fundamental disparity between appearance and reality, we gain a certain insight into the way our emotions work and how we react to events and objects”(Lame p. 16) and I resonated with this quote. I don’t think I need to translate his wise words because it is so straight forward. In the book, The Four Noble Truths, dependent origination and two truths are covered.by the Dalai Lama. In the book, The Four Noble Truths, written by the Dalai Lama, he first explains that there are three dimensions of dependent origination. The Dalai Lama states the first dimension is understanding of the principle of interdependent origination, also known as

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Both Ray Bradbury and E.B. White’s given excepts analyze the purpose of direction in life through descriptions of the natural world. For example, the motif of smells is evident in both excerpts to connect the ideas of direction, observation, and searching to physical images and things. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury writes “There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust” (144). Meanwhile, in Stuart Little, the repairman describes, “I have sat at peace on the freight platforms of railroad junctions in the north, in the warm hours and with the warm smells”. “Warm smells” carries the connotation of being attractive to the senses.

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