v.　Sacca Pabba (Section on Noble Truths)

d. Maggasacca Pabba (Section on the Noble Truth of the Path leading to the cessation of Dukkha)

And what is the Noble Truth of the path leading to the cessation of dukkha?

It is the Noble Eightfold Path, namely,

Right View,
Right Thought,

Right Speech,
Right Action,
Right Livelihood,

Right Effort,
Right Mindfulness,
and Right Concentration.

And what is Right View?

The understanding of dukkha; the understanding of the cause of dukkha; the understanding of the cessation of dukkha; the understanding of the path leading to the cessation of dukkha. This is called Right View.

And what is Right Thought?

Thoughts directed to liberation from sensuality; thoughts free from ill-will; and thoughts free from cruelty. This is called Right Thought.

And what is Right Speech?

Abstaining from lying, from tale-bearing, from abusive speech, and from vain and unbeneficial talk. This is called Right Speech.

And what is Right Action?

Abstaining from killing living beings, from stealing and from wrongful indulgence in sense pleasures. This is called Right Action.

And what is Right Livelihood?

Here the noble disciple completely abstains from a wrong way of livelihood and makes his living by a right means of livelihood. This is called Right Livelihood.

And what is Right Effort?

Here a bhikkhu generates an intention, makes effort, rouses energy, applies his mind, and strives ardently to prevent the arising of evil, unwholesome states of mind that have not yet arisen.

He generates an intention, makes effort, rouses energy, applies his mind, and strives ardently to abandon evil, unwholesome states of mind that have arisen.

He generates an intention, makes effort, rouses energy, applies his mind, and strives ardently to attain wholesome states of mind that have not yet arisen.

He generates an intention, makes effort, rouses energy, applies his mind, and strives ardently to maintain the wholesome states of mind that have arisen, to prevent their lapsing, to increase them, to cause them to grow, and to completely develop them.

This is called Right Effort.

And what is Right Mindfulness?

Here a bhikkhu dwells perceiving again and again the body as just the body with diligence, clear understanding, and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and mental pain in the world;

he dwells perceiving again and again feelings as just feelings with diligence, clear understanding and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and mental pain in the world,

he dwells perceiving again and again the mind as just the mind with diligence, clear understanding, and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and mental pain in the world;

he dwells perceiving again and again dhammas as just dhammas with diligence, clear understanding and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and mental pain in the world.

This is called Right Mindfulness.

And what is Right Concentration?

Here a bhikkhu being detached from sensual desire and unwholesome states attains and dwells in the first jhana which has vitakka and vicara; and rapture and sukha born of detachmentfrom the hindrances.

With the subsiding of vitakka and vicara, a bhikkhu attains and dwells in the second jhana, with internal tranquility and one-pointedness of mind, without vitakka and vicara, but with rapture and sukha born of concentration. Being without rapture, a bhikkhu dwells in equanimity with mindfulness and clear understanding, and experiences sukha in mind and body.

He attains and dwells in the third jhana; that which causes a person who attains it to be praised by the Noble Ones as one who has equanimity and mindfulness, one who abides in sukha.

By becoming detached from both sukha and dukkha and by the previous cessation of gladness and mental pain, a bhikkhu attains and dwells in the fourth jhana, a state of pure mindfulness born of equanimity.

This is called Right Concentration.

This is called the Noble Truth of the path leading to the cessation of dukkha.

Thus he dwells perceiving again and again dhammas as just dhammas, not mine, not I, not self, but just a phenomenon, in himself; or he dwells perceiving again and again dhammas as just dhammas in others; or he dwells perceiving again and again dhammas as just dhammas in both himself and in others. He dwells perceiving again and again the cause and the actual appearing of dhammas ; or he dwells perceiving again and again the cause and the actual dissolution of dhammas ; or he dwells perceiving again and again both the actual appearing and dissolution of dhammas with their causes.

To summarize, he is firmly mindful of the fact that only dhammas exists, not a soul, a self or I. That mindfulness is just for gaining insight and mindfulness progressively. Being detached from craving and wrong views he dwells without clinging to anything in the world.

Thus in this way a bhikkhu dwells perceiving again and again the Four Noble Truths as just the Four Noble Truths.