WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FULLY DEVELOP THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH? - Dhamma Q&A

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

A question received following the Esala Poya Dhamma Session on the Four Noble Truths:

“From the Stream Entry talk and subsequent Q&A, I think I understand what is meant around “not clinging to virtue and observances” – that virtue does not definitively lead to ultimate liberation, the Noble Eightfold Path does. My question is to do with the four developments and the Noble Eightfold Path, that you outlined in the Four Noble Truths talk. It seems that the virtue we are encouraged to cultivate on this Path has something to do with this. Can you please go over this again?”

Most of us in Dhamma understand the overall framework and component parts of the Noble Eightfold Path, however, not many are able to explain what the Buddha means by fully developing the Noble Eightfold Path (through development of body, virtue, mind and wisdom) and how it all comes together as the Path to Liberation, which is, the way leading to the end of the whole mass of suffering. If you understand this, then you begin to understand what is bhāvanā (what we call "meditation") that is taught by the Buddha.

To listen to the ESALA POYA FULL DHAMMA SESSION - https://tinyurl.com/24yd5drz

**This session is for anyone who sincerely wants to follow Gautama Buddha's original teaching of the Four Noble Truths**

Some of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to:

• — Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (SN 56.11)
• — Pariññeyya Sutta (SN 56.29)
• — ­­Cūḷaniddesa (PTS 1049, explanation 475) ­­­
• — Hārasampātabhūmi (Pe 7)
• — Paccaya Sutta (SN 12.27)
• — Cūḷavedalla Sutta (MN 44)
• — Loṇakapalla Sutta (AN 3.100)
• — Mahācunda Sutta (AN 10.24)
• — Bhāradvāja Sutta (SN 35.127)

Bohoma pin to the person that asked this question.

A VIDEO of this DHAMMA Q&A with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38h-jnFp19Y

A VIDEO of this ESALA POYA FULL DHAMMA SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riuNy43Ke2g AND on Spotify as a video podcast

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