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archive group 1. 1995.
The Tannisho Today
Rev Tairyu Furukawa
On Meditation
Vaughan Evans
From Blood to Rocks
Geoff Carpenter
Tokudo
Rev John Paraskevopoulos
archive group 2. 1996.
The Meaning of Kikyoshiki
Hongwangi International Centre
The Shin Buddhist Way
Rev Jack Austin
A Sutra of Healing and Protection
Tricycle Publications
Reliance
Stllea Ungar
archive group 3. 1996.
Faith in What?
Ajahn Sumedho (summerised by Max Flisher)
The Myokonin
Friedrich Fenzl
Seiza
Toshio Murakami
The Noble Eightfold Way

The Fourfold Truth as taught by the Buddha is as follows:
1. Life consists entirely of suffering
2. Suffering has causes (these two are the description of reality)
3. The causes of suffering can be extinguished
4. There exists a way to extinguish the causes (the last two express the ideal)

In explanation of the FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH the Buddha taught the Eightfold way as follows:

1. Right View; seeing things as they are.
2. Right Thought.
3. Right Speech.
4. Right Action. 2, 3 and 4 are the elements of human character.
5. Right Mindfulness.
6. Right Endeavour.
7. Right Livelihood. 5, 6 and 7 are the elements of human life or the dynamic aspects of human character.
8. Right Concentration. This is the motive power to carry one through all the worlds; this human world of desire, the heaven of bodily beings, the higher heaven of formless/bodieless beings and then holy beings; finally to reach the state of PARINIVANA (Highest Nirvana) … Buddahood.