The Noble Eightfold Path: Step Seven: Right Mindfulness

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This episode explores Right Mindfulness, the seventh step of the Noble Eightfold Path, focusing on relating to the mind as it is through meditation.

Send us Fan Mail This week we explore Right Mindfulness, the seventh step of the Noble Eightfold Path. While the earlier steps shape how we see and act in the world, this step turns us inward again, toward our direct experience. Right Mindfulness is not about self-improvement or optimization. It is a way of relating to the mind as it is. Through meditation, we begin to see that thoughts are not a problem to solve, but something to notice, release, and return from, again and again. In this e...

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Host: Susan Piver

Topics covered

• Buddhism
• Mindfulness
• Meditation
• Noble Eightfold Path
• Self-awareness

Keywords

• Right Mindfulness
• Noble Eightfold Path
• meditation
• self-improvement
• thoughts

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Books & works: The Noble Eightfold Path

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