Advayavada Study Plan - week 8

Friends,

Last week's ASP subject was the Second Step on the Noble Eightfold Path: our
very best (samyak, samma) determination in view of our personal situation at
this time. This week's subject is therefore the Third Step on the Noble
Eightfold Path: our very best (samyak, samma) enunciation, definition or
explanation of our intention.

The purpose of the ASP is that we study and discuss the meaning and
implications of the weekly subject particularly 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 and responsibilities in
the group, sangha, society at large, etc.

In Advayavada Buddhism, the Noble Eightfold Path is interpreted dynamically
as an ongoing and autonomous, non-prescriptive, investigative and creative
process of progressive insight reflecting in human terms overall existence
advancing over time. 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 at once gathers new
impetus.

Tip: Write down this week's subject (e.g. 'put into words') in your pocket
diary! 'Putting our ideas into words, or better, writing them down, makes an
important difference, for in this way they become objective and
criticizable.'

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