Editing Noble Eightfold Path (section)

=== Right resolve ===
Right Resolve (''samyak-saṃkalpa'' / ''sammā-saṅkappa'') can also be known as "right thought", "right aspiration", or "right motivation".<ref name="Brahm"/> In this factor, the practitioner resolves to leave home, renounce the worldly life and dedicate himself to an ascetic pursuit.{{Sfn|Vetter|1988|pp=12–13}}{{Sfn|Harvey|2013|pp=83–84}} In section III.248, the Majjhima Nikaya states,
{{blockquote|And what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation, on freedom from ill will, on harmlessness: This is called right resolve.<ref name="Bsaccavi">{{cite web |url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.141.than.html |title=Saccavibhanga Sutta |publisher=Access to Insight |author=Thanissaro Bhikkhu |year=2005 |access-date=19 July 2007 |archive-date=24 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524160757/http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.141.than.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

Like right view, this factor has two levels. At the mundane level, the resolve includes being harmless ([[ahimsa]]) and refraining from ill will (''avyapadha'') to any being, as this accrues karma and leads to rebirth.{{Sfn|Harvey|2013|pp=83–84}}<ref name=keownprebish333 /> At the supramundane level, the factor includes a resolve to consider everything and everyone as impermanent, a source of suffering and without a Self.<ref name=keownprebish333>{{cite book |author1=Damien Keown |author2=Charles S. Prebish |title=Encyclopedia of Buddhism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFpcAgAAQBAJ |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-98588-1 |page=333 |access-date=5 October 2016 |archive-date=11 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111060832/https://books.google.com/books?id=NFpcAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>