According to the Fourth Noble Truth, the path leads to liberation, peace, the extinction of suffering (dukkha), direct knowledge, Enlightenment, and nirvana (the term for a very advanced level of realization). It leads to the eradication of desires, aversions, and illusions. It consists of eight parts.
- Right view - understanding the law of cause and effect, impermanence, and the desire to free all beings from suffering
- Right thinking (resolve) - eradicating lust and unkindness, resolving to renounce ill will, and renouncing the infliction of all harm
- Righteous word (speech) - abstaining from lying and detraction, using speech to benefit others
- Righteous deed - involves observing the Five Precepts (not to take life, not to take what is not given, to lead a good sex life, not to use bad speech, not to intoxicate oneself with drinks and drugs that lead to inattention, to abstain from eating in the afternoon, not to use beautifying cosmetics, and not to sleep in high and luxurious beds)
- Righteous earning - a righteous way of earning a living, so as not to break the commandments and bring harm to others (trade in weapons, living creatures, drugs, poisons), but also to refrain from fishing, butchery, military, falsehood, treachery, predicting the future, deception, exploitation
- Righteous striving (effort) - striving for enlightenment
- Right concentration - maintaining attentiveness in all one's endeavors
- Rightful meditation - striving for states in which the "ego" disappears
