We all experience suffering.
We all seek a way to be free from our suffering.
The Buddha offers his noble eight-fold path which leads to the cessation of suffering.
The Buddha's way includes right understanding, resolve, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration.
This book explores the Buddha's way.
Ideally, I would have liked to have quoted the
Buddha
's
own words, and thus have the
speak for himself. But alas, to the best of my knowledge, the
wrote nothing down. We must turn to the words attributed to the
, which I sourced
from the oldest texts that are now available, namely the
Pali Canon
(the
Tipitaka
). The quotations are my translations from these Pali texts. For key words, I have provided footnotes where I give the original Pali word and its meanings and varied nuances.