Reading Highlight

As a teaching, the objective of the Eightfold Path is to bring the entire body and mind into a natural relationship with all things. Each step of the path is meant to see through the deceptions of the mind and reveal the inherent unity beneath. Each step is a hologram of all the other steps and cannot exist independently of the whole; they are interconnected links pointing to complete integration. This is an important point because we often try to disassemble the steps and apply them individually—the mind attempting once again to selectively pull apart what it likes from what it does not for the purpose of analyzing and formatting a blueprint to orderly living.