The Eight Disciplines
or
Eight Ways to Stop Making
Yourself Miserable
1. Clearly seeing things as they are
Not what you wish to happen. Not what you fear will happen. Just what IS happening.
Right View (Sammā Diṭṭhi)
Right View (Sammā Diṭṭhi)
2. Aim toward
letting go
Not achieving calm. Not becoming spiritual. Not fixing yourself.
Right Intention (Sammā Saṅkappa)
Right Intention (Sammā Saṅkappa)
3. Use clean speech
Stop using language to inflate yourself or hurt others.
Right Speech (Sammā Vācā)
Right Speech (Sammā Vācā)
4. Use behaviour that doesn't harm
Act in ways that leave the world less damaged.
Right Action (Sammā Kammanta)
Right Action (Sammā Kammanta)
5. Do work that doesn't corrupt you
Don’t make your living from deception, addiction, violence, or exploitation.
Right Livelihood (Sammā Ājīva)
Right Livelihood (Sammā Ājīva)
6. Steady training
Don’t feed what harms you. Strengthen what steadies you.
Right Effort (Sammā Vāyāma)
Right Effort (Sammā Vāyāma)
7. Remembering to be HERE
Stop drifting into automatic living, always be mindfull of what you do.
Right Mindfulness (Sammā Sati)
Right Mindfulness (Sammā Sati)
8. Stop Wandering off all the time
Simply not adding anything to this moment.
Right Concentration (Sammā Samādhi)
Right Concentration (Sammā Samādhi)