Editing Noble Eightfold Path (section)

====Concentration====
In the Theravada tradition, ''samadhi'' is interpreted as concentration on a meditation object. [[Buddhagosa]] defines samadhi as "the centering of consciousness and consciousness concomitants evenly and rightly on a single object...the state in virtue of which consciousness and its concomitants remain evenly and rightly on a single object, undistracted and unscattered."<ref>Visudimagga 84–85{{full citation needed|date=September 2016}}</ref>

According to Henepola Gunaratana, in the suttas samadhi is defined as one-pointedness of mind (''Cittass'ekaggatā'').<ref>Henepola Gunaratana (1995), The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation</ref>  According to [[Bhikkhu Bodhi]], the right concentration factor is reaching a one-pointedness of mind and unifying all mental factors, but it is not the same as "a gourmet sitting down to a meal, or a soldier on the battlefield" who also experience one-pointed concentration.<!-- invalid{{Sfn|Bhikkhu Bodhi|2010|pp=97–110}}--> The difference is that the latter have a one-pointed object in focus with complete awareness directed to that object&nbsp;– the meal or the target, respectively. In contrast, right concentration meditative factor in Buddhism is a state of awareness without any object or subject, and ultimately unto no-thingness and emptiness, as articulated in apophatic discourse. <!-- invalid{{Sfn|Bhikkhu Bodhi|2010|pp=97–110}}-->