Editing Noble Eightfold Path (section)

===Short description of the eight divisions===
The eight Buddhist practices in the Noble Eightfold Path are:
# Right View: our actions have consequences, death is not the end, and our actions and beliefs have consequences after death. The Buddha followed and taught a successful path out of this world and the other world (heaven and underworld/hell).{{sfn|Vetter|1988|pp=12, 77–79}}{{sfn|Velez de Cea|2013|p=54}}{{sfn|Wei-hsün Fu|Wawrytko|1994|p=194}}<ref group=web name="vgweb.org"/> Later on, right view came to explicitly include ''karma'' and rebirth, and the importance of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist [[soteriology]], especially in Theravada Buddhism.{{sfn|Vetter|1988|p=77}}{{sfn|Harvey|2013|pp=83–84}}
# Right Resolve (''samyaka-saṃkalpa''/''sammā-saṅkappa'') can also be known as "right thought", "right aspiration", or "right motivation".<ref name="Brahm">{{cite web|title=Word of the Buddha|author=Ajahn Brahm|date=27 May 2018|url=https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/updating-nyanantiloka-theras-word-of-the-buddha/9552/11|access-date=11 March 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804164855/https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/updating-nyanantiloka-theras-word-of-the-buddha/9552/11|url-status=live}}</ref> In this factor, the practitioner resolves to strive toward non-violence (''[[ahimsa]]'') and avoid violent and hateful conduct.{{Sfn|Harvey|2013|pp=83–84}} It also includes the resolve to leave home, renounce the worldly life and follow the Buddhist path.{{Sfn|Vetter|1988|pp=12–13}}
# Right Speech: no lying, no abusive speech, no divisive speech, no idle chatter.<ref name="rightSpeechAccessToInsight">{{cite web |title=Right Speech: samma vaca |url=https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html |website=www.accesstoinsight.org |access-date=29 January 2023 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032859/https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma-vaca/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Vetter|1988|p=12-13}}
# Right Conduct or Action: no killing or injuring, no taking what is not given, no sexual misconduct, no material desires. 
# Right Livelihood: no trading in weapons, living beings, meat, liquor, or poisons.
# Right Effort: preventing the arising of [[Four Right Efforts|unwholesome states]], and generating wholesome states, the ''bojjhaṅgā'' ([[Seven Factors of Awakening]]). This includes ''indriya-samvara'', "guarding the sense-doors", restraint of the sense faculties.<ref name="Analayo2013"/>{{sfn|Harvey|2013|p=83}}
# Right Mindfulness (''[[Sati (Buddhism)|sati]]''; ''[[Satipatthana]]''; ''[[Sampajañña]]''): a quality that guards or watches over the mind;{{sfn|Gethin|2003|p=32}} the stronger it becomes, the weaker unwholesome states of mind become, weakening their power "to take over and dominate thought, word and deed."{{sfn|Gethin|2003|p=43}}{{refn|group=note|According to Frauwallner, mindfulness was a means to prevent the arising of craving, which resulted simply from contact between the senses and their objects; this may have been the Buddha's original idea;{{sfn|Williams|2000|p=45}} compare [[Buddhadasa]], ''Heartwood of the Bodhi-tree'', on [[Pratītyasamutpāda]]; and Grzegorz Polak (2011), ''Reexamining Jhana: Towards a Critical Reconstruction of Early Buddhist Soteriology'', p.153-156, 196–197.}} In the [[vipassana movement]], ''sati'' is interpreted as "bare attention": never be absent minded, being conscious of what one is doing;<!-- invalid{{Sfn|Sharf|2014|p=941}}--> this encourages the awareness of the impermanence of body, feeling and mind, as well as to experience the five aggregates (''[[skandha]]s''), the [[five hindrances]], the four True Realities and [[seven factors of awakening]].{{Sfn|Harvey|2013|p=83}}
# Right ''[[samadhi]]'' (''[[passaddhi]]''; ''[[ekaggata]]''; ''sampasadana''): practicing four stages of ''[[Dhyāna in Buddhism|dhyāna]]'' ("meditation"), which includes ''samadhi'' proper in the second stage, and reinforces the development of the ''[[seven factors of awakening|bojjhaṅgā]]'', culminating into ''[[upekkhā]]'' (equanimity) and mindfulness.{{sfn|Polak|2011}}<!-- invalid{{Sfn|Arbel|2017}}--> In the Theravada tradition and the vipassana movement, this is interpreted as ''[[ekaggata]]'', concentration or one-pointedness of the mind, and supplemented with ''[[vipassana]]'' meditation, which aims at insight.