The Noble Eight Fold Path was preached by Gautama Buddha. This is the way of end of sufferings. This is the practical guideline to mental and ethical development with the goal of freeing the individual from the delusions and attachment of the material world. The Noble Eight Fold Path finally leads to the understanding of the truth about all things. The gist of Buddhism lies in the Noble Eight Fold Path and four noble truths. In this teaching of Buddha, great emphasis is given on the practical aspect, as it is the only practice through which one can attain higher level of consciousness and can finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as the sequence of single steps but they are considered as highly interdependent principles that are closely related to each other.

Right View
This is the beginning and ending of the path. It simply means to see and understand things as they really are and to realize four noble truths. As such right view is another aspect of knowledge and wisdom. It denotes seeing things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly object and ideas. It also includes the understanding of the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not an intellectual capacity only, nor it is the wisdom or a matter of intelligence. Right view is achieved, sustained and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subjected to suffering and it ends with the complete understanding of the real nature of all things. Since our thoughts and actions are the result of our thoughts, right view is of utmost importance for right thoughts and right actions.

Right Intention
Right intention is the volitional aspect of wisdom. It is the kind of mental energy that controls our actions. Right Intention can be depicted as the commitment to mental and ethical self-improvement. Buddha classified the right intensions into three types- 1. The intention of renunciation, which means resistance to pull the desires, 2. The intention of good will, indicating resistance to feelings of anger and aversion and 3. The intention of harmlessness, meaning not to think or act cruelly, aggressively or violently and to induce the feeling of compassion.

Right Speech
Right speech is the first principle of the ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is the guideline for moral discipline that supports the other principals of the path. The aspect is not self-sufficient but it is essential since mental purification can only be achieved through the cultivation of the ethical conduct. The importance of right speech is very significant in Buddhist ethics as words can save or destroy lives, make enemies or friends, cause a war or restore peace. According to Buddha, the right speeches are as follows: 1.to abstain from the false speech, especially not to utter deliberate lies or speak deceitfully, 2. To abstain from slanderous speech and not to use malicious words against other,3. To refrain from using harsh words that offends or hurt other people and 4. To abstain from idle chatter that is without meaning or depth. The teachings of Buddha can be summarized as to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warmly and gently to others only whenever talk is necessary.

Right Action
The second ethical principle is the right action that involves the body as the natural means of expression as it refers to deeds that involved the bodily actions. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound state of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Again, the principle is explained in terms of abstinence. Right action means 1. to refrain from harming any living creature, especially abstaining from taking life (including suicide) and doing harm intentionally, 2. to abstain from taking what is not given, which includes robbery, stealing, fraud, deceitfulness and dishonesty and to 3. Keep away from sexual misconduct. So right action means to act kindly and compassionately, to be honest and to respect the belongings of others and to maintain a sexual relationship that is harmless to others.

Right Livelihood
Right livelihood means to earn one`s living in the righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. The Buddha mentions four specific activities that harm other beings and that one should avoid for this reasons: 1. Dealing in weapons,2. Dealing in living beings, including domesticating animals for slaughter, slave trade and prostitution, 3. Working in meat shop or butchery and 4. Selling intoxicants and poisons like alcohols and narcotics. Not only that, any other occupation that would violate the principles of right speech and right action should be avoided.

Right Effort
Right effort can be seen as the prerequisite for other principles of the path. Without the effort, which is the act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task and leads to confusion. Mental energy is the force behind right effort. It can occur in either wholesome or unwholesome states. The same type of energy fuels desire, envy, aggression and violence can on the other side of the self-discipline, honesty, benevolence and kindness. Right effort is detailed in four types of endeavors that rank in ascending order of perfection: 1. To prevent the arising of unwholesome states, 2. To abandon unwholesome states that have already arisen, 3. To arouse wholesome states that have not yet arisen, 4. To maintain the perfect wholesome states that has already arisen.

Right Mindfulness
Right mindfulness is the controlled and perfect expression of cognition. It is the ability of mind to see things as they are, with clear consciousness. The cognitive process is related to impression induced by perception or by thought but it does not stay with mere impression. One can always conceptualize sense impressions and thoughts immediately. These are interpreted and set in relation to other thoughts and experiences, which is naturally beyond the original impression. The mind then generates concepts; join concepts into complex interpretative schemes. All this takes place only half consciously and as a result the things are seen as obscured. Right mindfulness is associated with clear perceptions and it penetrates impression without being carried away. Buddha accounted for four types of right mindfulness: 1. Contemplation of the body, 2. Contemplation of feeling that is repulsive, attractive or neutral., 3. Contemplation of the state of mind and 4. contemplation of the phenomena.

Right Concentration
This is the eighth principle of the path, which refers to the development of mental power that occurs in natural consciousness, although at a relatively low level of intensity like concentration. Right concentration for the purpose of the eight-folded path means wholesome concentration, which is reflected through thoughts and actions.The Buddhist method says to select the right method to practice the meditation. The meditating mind is focused to select an object. It first directs itself on it, then sustains concentration and finally intensifies the concentration gradually. Through the practice it becomes natural to apply elevated level of concentration in daily situations also.