Venerable Ledi Sayādaw

Magganga Dīpanī
A Manual of the Path Factors

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Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa
Veneration to the Most Exalted, the Purified,the Supremely Enlightened Buddha

Contents

A Summary of the Noble Eightfold Path

An Exposition of the Noble Eightfold Path

Right View (Sammā Ditthi)
Right Thought (Sammā Sankappa)
Right Speech (Sammā Vācā)
Right Action (Sammā Kammanta)
Right Livelihood (Sammā Ājīva)
Right Effort (Sammä Vāyāma)
Right Mindfulness (Sammā Sati)
Right Concentration (Sammā Samādhi)

Three Cycles Relating to Samsāra

Three Groups of the Eightfold Noble Path

Appendices

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Editor’s Note

This edition is based on that translated by U Saw Tun Teik, BA, BI, published by Mr Stanley Davidson in 1984.

I have removed many Pāli words, and simplified the language to make it easier to read for those who are not Pāli scholars.

If one could acquire a thorough grasp of the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path as explained here, it would be sufficient to remove any wrong views about the Dhamma.

If the readers could go one step further, and apply the advice given, they would begin the practise of insight meditation in earnest, and thus acquire the seeds of insight that would stand them in good stead for the realisation of nibbāna in this very life, or at least during the sāsana of Maitreyya Buddha.

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