The root of the path is sila, samadhi and panna.

1. The Golden Rule works.

2. Concentration -- requires and effort that goes beyond your preference mind (you get bored). Important for right-hemisphere brain if mind is wandering around in the left brain.

3. Wisdom -- Complete View: fundamentally, reality from a Transcendent point of view is self-aware, luminescent, spacious. From that platform all phenomena appear.

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Part 3 of 3 of a talk given in Kyoto, Japan, in November 2008.

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