Advayavada Study Plan - week 5

Friends,

This week's ASP subject are again the Fourth Noble Truth: the Noble
Eightfold Path, and the Fourth Sign of Being: Progress.

The Noble Eightfold Path, when it is interpreted dynamically as an ongoing,
autonomous, non-prescriptive, investigative and creative
process of progressive insight reflecting in human terms overall existence
advancing over time, as Advayavada Buddhism does, is (1) that of
our very best (samyak, samma) comprehension or insight followed by (2) our
very best resolution or determination, (3) our very best enunciation or
definition of our purpose or intention, (4) our very best disposition or
frame of mind, (5) our very best implementation or realization of our
purpose, (6) our very best effort or commitment, (7) our very best
observation, reflection or evaluation and self-correction, and (8) our very
best meditation or concentration towards an increasingly real experience of
samadhi, which brings us to (1) a yet better comprehension or insight, and
so forth.

By following the Noble Eightfold Path thus you get in tune with wondrous
overall existence advancing over time; sorrow, doubt and
remorse immediately start disappearing; and your life soon gathers new
impetus.

The purpose of the ASP is that we study and discuss the meaning and
implications of the weekly subject in the context of whatever we ourselves
are presently doing or are concerned with, or about, such as our health,
relationships, work, study, our place in society, etc.

Tip: Write down this week's subject ('path and progress') in your pocket
diary!

John Willemsens,
Advayavada Foundation.
<http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/index.htm>