Right Mindfulness Part 2

The Noble Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness

© Rick Hanson, 2006

“I teach one thing: Suffering and its end.” — The Buddha

The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha’s Noble Truths: the way that leads to the uprooting of the causes of suffering, and thus to increasingly stable and profound peacefulness, wisdom, virtue, and happiness. The heart of each element of the Path is non-clinging, the fundamental cause of the end of suffering.

Some of the key factors promoting mindfulness are summar...