What, bhikkhus, is noble right concentration with its supports and its requisites, that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness? Unification of mind equipped with these seven factors is called noble right concentration with its supports and its requisites.
Any concentration that has the following 7 parts: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness is called right concentration. Any concentration that does not have those 7 parts is called wrong concentration...
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This ability to remember what needs to be done, what should be done, for those who study Buddhism is the mental factor of MINDSET, remembering the evil things that should not be done, the good things that should be done... is mindfulness....
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And what, bhikkhus, is wrong livelihood? Scheming, talking, hinting, belittling, pursuing gain with gain: this is wrong livelihood, ...Here, bhikkhus, a noble disciple abandons wrong livelihood and gains his living by right livelihood: this is right livelihood that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions...
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Abstinence from killing living beings, abstinence from taking what is not given, abstinence from misconduct in sensual pleasures: this is right action that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions...
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The intention of renunciation, the intention of non-ill will, and the intention of non-cruelty: this is right intention that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions, The thinking, thought, intention, mental absorption, mental fixity, directing of mind, verbal formation in one whose mind is noble, whose mind is taintless, who possesses the noble path and is developing the noble path...
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1. the noble truth of suffering
2. the origin of suffering
3. the cessation of suffering
4. the way leading to the cessation of suffering...
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