legs. Its a working together. It is a process of bringing the Eightfold Path into your mind and using it as a reflective teaching so you can consider what it really means. The Eightfold Path is grouped into three different sections, with the eight elements separated under the three sections. The first section is titled wisdom and it contains right understanding and right aspiration. The second section is called morality and it contains right speech, right action, and right livelihood. The third and final section is entitled concentration; it contains the last three of the Eightfold Path, which are right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. These events dont occur in a linear fashion or in a sequence, they occur together. The Eightfold Path simply teaches us to reflect on the importance of taking responsibility for what we say and do in our lives. This enables one to attain nirvana because it avoids the extreme of self-torture that weakens ones intellect and the extreme of self-indulgence that retards ones spiritual progress (Dharma & Nirvana). Augustine looked at our predicament in a different light. He stated that our chief plight in life was sin. Sin was the root of all evil in Augustines eyes. Sin was the absence of good, and we will evil and sin to come into our lives. We are responsible for our evilness. Sin for Augustine is the failure to realize the powers that God has given to us and the misuse of those powers as well. Due to the fact that we sin, we suffer according to Augustine. Suffering is inevitable when you are a sinner, because you wont be satisfied. No matter how much you get, youre still going to want more, to be richer or more successful, to have more of something, or for something to be better. Augustine says that you cant get meaning or purpose from material things, so no matter how much you have youll never be satisfied. According to Augustine, attachment isnt evil. We are created...
