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The Noble Eightfold Path
avoids both indulgence and severe asceticism,
neither of which the Buddha had found helpful

in his search for enlightenment.

The eight habits or the Noble Eightfold Path,
as outlined by Gautama Buddha,
upon his enlightenment are:

1: RIGHT UNDERSTANDING*
or Right View that unwholesome actions
and thoughts have consequences,

as do wholesome actions and thoughts.
Death is not the end, and our actions and beliefs have
consequences after death.

The Buddha Understood, Realised, Knew and Liberated
himself from the cycle of life and death in the realms of
samsara. Thus he taught a successful path out of this world
and the other world (heaven and underworld/hell); and it
include karma and rebirth as outlined in the
Dependent Origination** or dependent arising.

It states that all dhammas (phenomena)
arise in dependence upon other dhammas:
“if this exists, that exists;
if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist”.

The basic principle is that all things
(dhammas, phenomena, principles)
arise in dependence upon other things.

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