The Four Noble Truths:
1. Life is suffering.
2. Suffering is due to attachment.
3. Attachment can be overcome.
4. There is a path for accomplishing this.
This path, the middle way, is elaborated as the eightfold path.
The Eightfold Path
1. Right view is the true understanding of the four noble truths.
2. Right aspiration is the true desire to free oneself from attachment, ignorance, and hatefulness.
These two are wisdom.
3. Right speech involves abstaining from lying, gossiping, or hurtful talk.
4. Right action involves abstaining from hurtful behaviors, such as killing or stealing,.
5. Right livelihood means making your living in such a way as to avoid dishonesty and hurting others, including animals.
These three are morality.
6. Right effort is working to improve one's mind: Bad qualities should be abandoned. Good qualities should be nurtured.
7. Right awareness is focusing one's attention on one's body, feelings, thoughts, and consciousness in such a way as to overcome craving, hatred, and ignorance.
8. Right concentration is meditating to realize a true understanding of suffering and attachment.
The last three are meditation.
