Today I want to pick up where we left off, continuing our exploration of the Noble Eightfold Path. So, just to recap, in my last article, A Way To Transform Your Suffering, I expressed that the Eightfold Path provides us with a means or a foundation and framework to support us in our pursuit of peace and freedom. And it does this by encouraging us to listen to and live in harmony with the Dharma — with Truth, Reality, Law, Nature, Life, God, etc.

More specifically, I spoke about one of these eight folds, our worldview and understanding, which I mentioned takes shape naturally as a part of the human experience, because it is this worldview that acts as our operating system, it is this worldview that navigates us through the terrains of existence, that moves our lips and our limbs. It is through this worldview that we come to know ourselves, the world, and our place in it. It is our worldview that shapes our entire lives, that shapes our entire experience.

Today, then, because this first fold is so important in our pursuit of peace and freedom, we’re going to continue exploring it in a bit more depth. And we’ll do so through the window of perception, which together with thought constructs our entire understanding and model of the world, or experience.