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And the fourth truth, This is that course which leads to the stopping, points directly to the interconnected items of the spiritual and ethical program that brings deliverance, which we call the Eightfold Path, the Astangika Marga, or the Arya Astanga Marga.
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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And the fourth truth, This is that course which leads to the stopping, points directly to the interconnected items of the spiritual and ethical program that brings deliverance, which we call the Eightfold Path, the Astangika Marga, or the Arya Astanga Marga.
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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Those eight ways, called the Eightfold Path in Buddhism, are a moral compass to right action, right thought, right livelihood, right speech, etc.
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The YOGA system as outlined by Patanjali is known as the Eightfold Path.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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The YOGA system as outlined by Patanjali is known as the Eightfold
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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And finally the fourth noble truth is the path that leads to the cessation of suffering, where there is a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence, also known as the Eightfold Way because there are 8 characteristics to this final truth.
Blogtimore, Hon 2009
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He was 62 years old and had ascended to the rank of Geshe — the rough equivalent of a doctor of divinity — through a lifetime of study and an unwavering devotion to the Noble Eightfold Path of the Gautama Buddha.
The Silence 2010
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He was 62 years old and had ascended to the rank of Geshe — the rough equivalent of a doctor of divinity — through a lifetime of study and an unwavering devotion to the Noble Eightfold Path of the Gautama Buddha.
The Silence 2010
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Just now I see that blogger Andrew C. White is ringing a similar chime, noting how the Eightfold Path “might clear some of the muddle going on in Washington” and in the media around US health care reform.
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I'm sure snorting powder is the lost ninth way on the Eightfold Path.
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