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This e book is in the custom of the best-selling Dhammapada, a translation with commentary of one of the earliest of the making it through Buddhist text messages, which discloses the teachings to be remarkably simple and free from religious trappings. One of the earliest of most Buddhist text messages, the Atthakavagga, or Publication of Eights, is a exceptional doc, not only because it comes from the earliest stress of the literature - before the Buddha, as the title suggests, had become thought of as a "Buddhist" - but also because its method of awakening is so simple and free from adherence to almost any ideology. Instead the Atthakavagga items to a direct and simple approach for attaining peace without needing the adherence to doctrine. The worthiness of the teachings it contains is not in the profundity of these viewpoint or in their authority as scripture; alternatively, the value is situated in the results they bring to those who live by them. Instead of doctrines to be assumed, the Publication of Eights identifies means or procedures for realizing peace. Gil Fronsdal's rigorous translation with commentary discloses the written text to be of interest not and then Buddhists, but also to the ever-growing demographic of the spiritual-but-not-religious, who seek a spiritual life outside the structures of religious beliefs.
