section_path: Paths to liberation/Paths to liberation in the early texts/Noble Eightfold Path
section_name: Noble Eightfold Path
paragraph_text: Noble Eightfold Path
  
  The Eightfold Path consists of a set of eight interconnected factors or conditions, that when developed together, lead to the cessation of dukkha. These eight factors are: Right View (or Right Understanding), Right Intention (or Right Thought), Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.
  
  This Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths and asserts the path to the cessation of dukkha (suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness). The path teaches that the way of the enlightened ones stopped their craving, clinging and karmic accumulations, and thus ended their endless cycles of rebirth and suffering.
  
  The Noble Eightfold Path is grouped into three basic divisions, as follows: