The Three Karmas once gone, follow the Noble Eightfold Path. When the Ten Evils end, do the Ten Good Deeds automatically emerge:  as such we have made a more step morally. However, this  progress does not mean we have reached our objective. So, we need to proceed with the Noble Eightfold Path, because it is the key sutra for anyone who wants to exit the delusional world for deliverance.

The Noble Eightfold Path consists of:

1. Right View

2. Right Thought

3. Right Livelihood

4. Right Effort

5. Right Action

6. Right Speech

7. Right Mindfulness

8. Right Concentration

1. RIGHT VIEW: ‘Right’ is truthful, correct, veracious. ‘View’ is seeing, observing. The Right View is seeing or observing things as they are.

Generally speaking, humans tend to be so carried away by their egotism and  self-obfuscation that their views go more or less astray. Sometimes, it is because of short perspicacity, retribution, self-interest, rancour, that their judgment is so biased that it may harm  others with injustice.  In this sense, the Right View teaches us thoroughly to investigate all aspects of any matter,  carefully examine it, in order to avoid any misjudgment, whether it is our own or others’ affairs. Thus, utmost observation or probe, prevent us from skewing our views, aberration, so that our egoism may not obfuscate our acumen; it helps us obtain a straightforward, transparent understanding and a truthful, fair judgment.

Not only that, but it also helps us understand worldly entanglements, know religious miracles, stop chasing after witchcraft, renounce self-immersions, return to morality, and free ourselves from worldly depravity.  It enables us to avoid all fallacies lest we should get lost while practicing the Tao.

2. RIGHT THOUGHT: The morally right thought.

 Born to the world, humans are susceptible to material temptations, e.g. self-interest, power, conjugal bonds, etc. This thought has driven our minds ever whirling within these vortexes, which one will never escape. It is on the evil part.

On the right one, we learn  that our mind must be calm, our character serene, our thinking noble, and our intellect to seek out the Truth. That Truth is our Tao toward humankind, the Holy Supreme, and ourselves. Therefore, be committed to the search for a way to  liberate the living from their abysmal immersion. Believe in the Holy Supreme and pray for the latter to bless Humankind.  Seek out the path of deliverance for ourselves by leading a frugal, mindful, entirely devoted life.

3. RIGHT LIVELIHOOD: The honest, legitimate way to earn a living.

For Buddhist monastics, apart from their routines of meditation and concentration, scriptural recitations and self-paced walks, readingsutras or writing books, voluntary works in temples, nothing could lead them to create bad Karma.

By contrast, lay practicers still need to make a living for subsistence; some are busy traders, others do this or that, all are because of the body. Yet, although their livelihood pervades their existences, this makes them entirely differ from thieves and tricksters: they do nothing fraudulent and inhumane. In earning a living, they vow to quit harmful businesses e.g. hosting prostitutes, drug trafficking, alcohol trading, speculation,  lending with  exorbitant rates, etc. 

Though these traders do not press their customers to buy their good or services, the fact that they do those occupations render  the human being spoiled and depraved… The traders are accomplices, and the offenders are drug addicts and alcoholics.

In this sense, the Right Livelihood prohibits these occupations.  The lay practicer ought not to kill animals for no reason, nor to beat or stab anyone, so that they may commit many sins.

4. RIGHT EFFORT: Right Belief and Advancing.

Atheism often holds that the human body is the human being themselves. Thus, if the body remains, the human being remains; if the body dies, the human being dies.  There are  neither Saint, Deity, God, Buddha nor retributive cycle of rebirth; neither sin nor merit, neither vital spirit nor soul. Life is the human body; living is fighting; the stronger win and the weaker lose. Thus, there are so many frauds, mythomania, cruel and unjust that all are brought out for use.

In this sense, this Right Effort topic urges us to keep our faith vigorous. No matter how overwhelming our desires are, how compelling the forces of temptation are to divert our faith from the Holy Supreme toward other things, we shall not let them carry us away. And we must always remember the Blessed One’s world–salvaging mission. We must remember that the living beings are drowning in the worldly sea, that, as long as any sentient being still suffer, we must also suffer with them, and that we are obligated to enlighten them and help them eliminate bitter cyclic injustices.

For this, we must first seek ways to enlighten ourselves and advance toward Nirvana; we resolve to achieve our  self-enlightenment

to guide the masses from consequential mundanity. Eradicate any depression, wickedness, Six Sense Organs, Six Sense Objects. Try hard to sharpen the mind, perfect virtues: placidity, happiness, dignity,  resolutely advance toward Nirvana, to help the sentient being be free from their retributive cycle of rebirth.

5. RIGHT CONDUCT/ACTION:  the conduct that is correct and pure.

People often take their bodies for roots which they adore and care. That arises from Six Sense Organs: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue, Body, and Thought. Eyes love good look, ears melodic sound, nose perfume, tongue delicious food, body for comfort, and thought high positions. 

People seek every way to nurture their bodies, thus rendering their intellects darker by the day, to such an extent that they are no longer wary of their demise.

Therefore, avoid what would obscure our mind: get rid of all kinds of luxury, so we can gain self-mastery to seek immortality. Take meditation for substance, acumen for imperative, the soul enters Lotus, and transcend to Nirvana.

6. RIGHT SPEECH: the truthful speech, veracity.

The Six Sense Organs impregnate humans with Six Sense Objects. As they want to nurture their bodies, so do humans develop their cravings that are the origins of sins, including the karma of the tongue:

· Double-tongued (sowing disharmony among people); 

· Scolding (scolding one’s subordinate); 

· Cruel speech (obscenity, blasphemous profanity);

· Lies (forging stories, verbal fabrication).

Ensure that one’s language is genuine, truthful, and exact. Eliminate lies, misleading, fraudulent, rude, and harsh speeches. In any discussion, speak with transparency and integrity. Toward your superiors or subordinates, use simple, decent language. The advices you give to others is to do the right thing, all are helpful to the sentient being, and morally fit.

7. RIGHT MINDFULNESS: Right Memorization.

 Whether something remains or not preoccupies you; whether you gain or lose preoccupies you; whether you love or hate someone   preoccupies you. Seven Sentiments and Six Desires compel humans to expend so much stamina to serve them. Self-interest, affection, power, affluence, etc., are the daily subjects of memorization.  Thus, humans get forever inextricably caught in the Six Path cycle of rebirth.

To escape from the woeful cycle of rebirth, contemplate Buddha’s teachings, abandon frivolities, memorize Buddha’s good deeds toward sentient beings, and internalize His tenets. Remember, the Four Elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind) make up our bodies which will sooner or later decompose.  Only in this way can we dispel our emotions and desires, and avoid the misfortunes derived therefrom.

8. RIGHT CONCENTRATION: Right contemplation.

One often tends to be more sumptuous, more opulent, more enjoyable, etc., that is, their intentions are entirely lowly and ignoble. They do not understand that their world is impermanent, changeable from day to day, the bodies displaceable,  that their wealth is like floating clouds and foams.  Births, diseases, aging, and deaths, follow  the life of one after another  and so forth, that is, upon all humans without anyone as an exception.  However, they still keep scrambling for vainglory, transient affluence, chasing after superficialities, something piecemeal and trivialities.

They do not recognize that, apart from the transient world , there is something permanent, immutable, eternal. If one uses meditation to unravel primeval delusion, they can see that, at this place, humans will no longer suffer from depression and retributive reincarnation.

When we use the Right Concentration to end depressions and all waves of temptations that drag us into wrong paths, our minds will no longer be agitated, our intellect shine like a full moon, translucent in one color, rid of external contamination and temporal attraction, and progressing toward deliverance.