{"id":396,"date":"2018-01-30T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=396"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:43:12","slug":"2018-01-30-eight-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2018-01-30-eight-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"January 30 &#8211; Eight steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m on retreat until Tuesday afternoon, but I&#8217;ve queued up some emails to keep you inspired while I&#8217;m away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continuing with Bhante Gunaratana&#8217;s discussion in Chapter 13, now on the eightfold path.<\/p>\n<p>The eightfold path lists steps we can follow to realize the release from suffering caused by craving. In brief, they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skillful understanding &#8211; we understand that our actions lead to effects<\/li>\n<li>Skillful thinking &#8211; we cultivate positive thoughts, like generosity and kindness<\/li>\n<li>Skillful speech &#8211; we tell the truth and avoid harsh talk or gossip<\/li>\n<li>Skillful action &#8211; we try to live our lives in a way that won&#8217;t harm others or ourselves<\/li>\n<li>Skillful livelihood &#8211; we conduct ourselves in our work with integrity and honesty<\/li>\n<li>Skillful effort &#8211; we work to release and prevent unskillful states of mind, and foster and continue skillful states of mind<\/li>\n<li>Skillful mindfulness &#8211; for example, by having a regular meditation practice, and bringing mindfulness into our daily lives<\/li>\n<li>Skillful concentration &#8211; we train our minds to become focused<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We could spend months going over each of these, and you can find many books and talks on the subject&#8230; Maybe a good topic for emails another year!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I invite you to keep practicing, to keep noticing what it is that leads to peace and well-being. How does your experience fit into the categories above?<\/p>\n<p>With best wishes,<br \/>\nAndrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, I&#8217;m on retreat until Tuesday afternoon, but I&#8217;ve queued up some emails to keep you inspired while I&#8217;m away. Continuing with Bhante Gunaratana&#8217;s discussion in Chapter 13, now on the eightfold path. The eightfold path lists steps we can follow to realize the release from suffering caused by craving. In brief, they are: Skillful understanding &#8211;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2018-01-30-eight-steps\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102],"tags":[161,146,103],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2018","tag-eightfold-path","tag-fourth-foundation","tag-henepola-gunaratana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}