Right view (Right understanding)
- understanding suffering
- understanding its origin
- understanding its cessation
- understanding the way leading to its cessation
Right intention
- intention of renunciation
- intention of good will
- intention of harmlessness
Right speech
- abstaining from false speech
- abstaining from slanderous speech
- abstaining from harsh speech
- abstaining from idle chatter
Right action
- abstaining from taking life
- abstaining from stealing
- abstaining from sexual misconduct
Right livelihood
- abandon wrong livelihood
- earn one’s living by a right form of livelihood
Right effort
- the effort to restrain unwholesome states of mind from arising
- the effort to abandon unwholesome states that have arisen
- the effort to give rise to wholesome states (Brahma-viharas)
- the effort to sustain wholesome states
Right mindfulness
- mindful contemplation of the body
- mindful contemplation of feelings/sensations
- mindful contemplation of the mind/mental objects
- mindful contemplation of phenomena (dhammas)
Right concentration (Keeping the mind on the object of meditation)
- the first jhana (Delight)
- the second jhana (Joy)
- the third jhana (Peace)
- the fourth jhana (Equanimity)