SPIRITUAL MAGGA (SM)

SPIRITUALLY HELPING OTHER PEOPLE (SM)

E159 - SPIRITUAL MAGGA (SM)

CHRISTOPHER LIAM ROSE TALKS ABOUT SPIRITUAL MAGGA (SM)

Magga is a Pāli term meaning "path" or "road," which in Buddhist spirituality refers to the Noble Eightfold Path—the fourth of the Four Noble Truths. It is the practical, middle-way methodology designed to eliminate suffering (dukkha), craving, and ignorance, ultimately leading to enlightenment (Nibbāna/Nirvana). 

Meaning and Key Aspects

• The Middle Way: The Path avoids extreme indulgence and severe asceticism, acting as a balanced approach to life.
• The Noble Eightfold Path: It consists of eight interconnected practices categorized into three divisions:
  • Wisdom (Paññā): Right Understanding, Right Intention.
  • Ethics/Morality (Sīla): Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood.
  • Meditation/Concentration (Samādhi): Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.
• Significance: It is described as a "tool" for clearing away dukkha and a "bridge" to cross over samsaric currents.
• Supramundane Path: In higher Abhidhamma studies, magga represents the "path consciousness" that arises to destroy mental defilements (kilesas). 

Synonyms and Related Terms

• Noble Eightfold Path: Ariya Aṭṭhaṅgika Magga.
• The Middle Way: Majjhimā paṭipadā.
• Path and Fruit: Magga-phala (referring to the path and its immediate result).
• Path of Purification: Maggamaṅga.

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Transcript

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Hello everyone, my name is Christopher Liam Rose. I'm an author, mentor, life coach, motivational speaker, evangelist, musician, and activist. In the Spiritually Helping Other People podcast, we're going to be sharing a new message and a new audio and podcast for the Spiritually Helping Other People podcast. I've been sharing the Spiritually Helping Other People podcast to inspire humanity to learn about Jesus Christ, Jehovah and Buddha. I've been sharing the Spiritually Helping Other People podcast to inspire humanity to learn about faith, spirituality, fate, and religion. And I've also been sharing the Spiritually Helping Other People podcast to inspire humanity to learn about helping other people, giving back, and making a difference. Now within um the podcast and audio, we're going to be talking about a new um very important message for Buddhism. So at the moment, within this Spiritually Helping Other People podcast, I've been showing things in Buddhism. Because um for me I've found both Christianity and Buddhism in my religious life. Um I want to sort of encourage and share things within Buddhism, which I'm trying to do within this podcast today. And hopefully the message can inspire those people who want to learn about Buddhism and want to learn about spirituality and faith. So the message that I have for today is spiritual mega. So we're gonna explore this and we're gonna be talking about this today, and hopefully, this podcast will help those listeners and viewers who want to learn more about faith, spirituality, fate, and religion. Learn more about you know the Buddhist tradition and the uh Buddhist um religion. So in this message, we're going to be talking about spiritual MAGA. So the first thing is what is spiritual MAGA? So it says on Google on the definition MAGA is the path or road, so which the Buddhists spiritually referred to the noble eightfold path, the fourth of this the fourth noble truths. So MAGA is basically the path and the road. So the question we have to ask ourselves is what what is the path and the road to spiritual enlightenment and the the noble eightfold path. Now I'm gonna explain this very briefly as well within this podcast and audio today. Now, basically, within faith, spirituality, fate, and religion, it's important that we actually go on our path and go on our road. Now, all human beings are destined to become something that you envision and want to become in life, right? Sometimes for different human beings, that could involve a religious path or a spiritual path or a faithful path. Now, within my understanding of just religion, faith, spirituality, there's different paths that lead to different roads within your life and different paths within your life, right? So, what the Buddha was trying to uh teach within these messages were the eighth fold path, right? Which is the path to spiritual enlightenment and ending of suffering pay and versity, which we normally call dukkha. So the spiritual enlightenment path is nirvana, which we are all trying to obtain, and then the path to eliminate that is the eightfold path, which the Buddha was basically talking about in his sermons and in his teaching. So the question is if Magga is the path and the road, and how do we lead to the noble eightfold path? Now I'm gonna explain what the noble eightfold path is to help those listeners and those viewers who really want to understand the Buddhist tradition and the religion. So it says here that the Eightfold Path has eight paths to it, or eight different core concepts, components to the actual path. So it says right view and understanding number one, right intention and resolution, number two, number three, right speech, number four, right action, right five, right livelihood, number six, right effort, number seven, right mindfulness, and number eight, right concentration. So these are the eight full paths within the Buddhist tradition, and this is what the Buddha was talking about in the sermons, right? So it's important if we want to find the ending of suffering pain and adversities for ourselves and find the Vanya, which is basically enlightenment, we need to go on the eightfold path of discovering that. Now, it's important also to learn as well within Buddhist tradition, as well, that it's important that we do try to end suffering, pain, and adversities for ourselves, which is dukkha, and all human beings have a form of dukkha that they've experienced in in their lives, it could be distress, um, emotions, feelings, suffering, pain, adversity, challenges, difficulties. The list can go on with what human beings have faced within their lives in the suffering pain of adversity. But if we want to get on the spiritual path, the faithful path, the truthful path, and the religious path within our lives, then we need to basically understand what MAGA is all about the path and the road. Now, also within Buddhism, which I want to bring into this order and podcast today, is that normally when we go on this path of faith, spirituality, fate, and religion, which is so important in just all aspects of life, right? We need to find a path that's right for us, and we need to find a road that's right for us. Now, obviously, we've understood within life there's so many things that's happened in life. You know, people have lost their lives, people have become divorced, there have been breakups, um, there's been wars, there's been corruption, there's been destruction, there's been negativity, there's been politics, there's been it's just so many things that's happening within the world because you know the world is just going through so many different things, but it's so important that we understand what MAGA is basically talking about, which is the path and the road. So, within life, there is a path and a road to end suffering paying adversity, which is the spiritual enlightenment, the noble eightfold path. So, if the Buddha has teached this to humanity to try to encourage humanity to learn the eightfold path, but it's more important not just to learn the eightfold path, because a lot of people do know what it is, but do you live it? Do you do it? Do you have you developed the qualities of the eightfold path, which is the right view, understanding, the right intention, resolution, the right speech, the right action, the right livelihood, the right effort, the right mindfulness, the right concentration. Now, if the path in the world of MAGA leads to the Eightfold Path, we need to basically live the Eightfold Path within the Buddhist tradition and within you know being either a Buddhist or a religious or faithful spiritual person. Now, if we want to attain a vanya, which is enlightenment, we need to find it for ourselves. Now, this is when things become very hard for human beings because of the suffering, pain, and adversity we've gone through, most pe most human beings are very vulnerable, they're very depressed, they're very unhappy, and they're still in suffering, pain and adversity, and of course, they haven't obtained enlightenment or nirvana or haven't overcome their own suffering because they're still within it. So there's something within the trud uh the Buddhist tradition that talks about the no-self. So just want to bring this up briefly within Buddhism, um, which is the non-self, um, which the Buddha was also teaching about. And it says that the no-self is a foundational Buddhist um doctrine asserting that no permanent or unchanging soul, essence of independent self exists within living beings or pharmonia. So it's basically saying that the no-self is the obviously basically what it's saying is the suffering pain and adversity we go through as human beings is basically part of the self, but when we change into faith, spirituality, fate, and religion, we discover there's no permanent, unchanging soul, essence of independent of self. So it's changing that it's it's the no-self, changing your suffering, pain, adversity, anxiety, stress, misery, depression, unhappiness, sadness, despair, challenges, difficulties, struggles, um, feelings and emotions to the no-self because the no self there's no permanent self. So I've as I've explained with spiritual manga that there is a path of ending suffering, pain, and adversity, but we have to go on the journey of the noble eightfold path, which the Buddha was basically talking about. So how to Golama, which is the Buddha's name, right? So it's important that in our lives we find the ending of suffering, pain, and adversity for ourselves. Now, this is where life begets very complicated for human beings and for individuals. They say, I do this within my life, I do that within my life, I've got this within my life, I've got that within my life, this is my situation, these are my circumstances, this is what I'm going through. It's all like for some strange reason, most people are just stuck on suffering payer adversity. Most of the things they talk about is their suffering payer adversity, and it's just it's like a like without without and I I've just learned this from myself being within kind of the the the Buddhist tradition in my own way, that if you don't discover the eightfold path of ending suffering, pain, and adversity, and you don't make an effort to do the noble eightfold path, and you don't make an effort to basically say, Do you know what? Okay, I have gone through suffering, I have gone through pain, I have gone through anxiety, I have gone through stress, I have gone through depression, I have gone through adversities, but I want to do something about it, and I want to change that. I don't I don't want my whole life to be suffering, pain, and adversity, and I don't want to always be living with the fact that this is what I went through, this is what I was going through, this was my experiences, and and living that type of life. So with spiritual manga, the path and the road, this is where I want to really get this message across in this podcast and audio today. Now, there is a certain a certain thing that I've learned in and I've learned this at a very young age, and I want to share this now within the podcast and audio. Now, a spiritual maga, now let me let me break it down a little bit more in the podcast and audio, right? So basically, we what what what is it that human beings really need to understand this? What we really need is knowledge and wisdom. Without knowledge and wisdom, we can't do the noble eightfold path. Without knowledge and wisdom, we can't basically end suffering pain and adversity, and without the knowledge and wisdom, we will never know who we are, right? So people say, but knowledge and wisdom, do I just gain it from a book? Do I just gain it from uh uh a talk? Do I just gain it from um friends and family? And the question to all of those answers is that it has to be learnt yourself, right? This is what the Buddha was basically trying to teach, right? The Buddha was basically trying to teach that if all human beings are gonna go through suffering, pain, and adversity anyway, because this is part of life and it's part of our existence, so we can't escape the impermanence of human beings, and basically, in other words, the suffering pain and adversity that human beings go through. So the only thing we can do with the suffering pain and adversity that we've gone through is transcend it, overcome it, end suffering, pain, and adversity find Navanya. Now, this is what I've learnt from my whole journey, and I'm only quite young at the moment within my life, but this is what I've learnt from my whole journey, and if there's a path and a road to end suffering, pain, and adversity, then I'm also must be a path and a road to help other people give back and make a difference. Now, I've explained this in audios and videos before, which I'm gonna explain now because it's so important. Now, the Buddha's teachings are for humanity, he's trying to inspire humanity to basically end suffering, pain, and adversity because he went on a journey of spiritual enlightenment, he meditated, he did mindfulness, he practiced the meditation and mindfulness, gained the spiritual enlightenment, and when I say he gained the spiritual enlightenment, the Buddha gained the spiritual alignment for himself first before he started to teach it to others. So, when I say there's a path and road to helping other people, what am I basically saying? You have to discover the alignment for yourself before you can teach and help other people, and that's the way how life works. Because how can you help other people if you haven't learned things yourself? How can you help other people if you don't have knowledge and wisdom? How can you help other people if you wasn't spiritually changing? So, what the Buddha's teaching in the Noble Truths and the Eightfold Paths is that life will always have suffering pair adversity, which is just part of natural life, it's natural suffering pair adversity, it's very natural, but transcending it is what becomes difficult. So there's the eightfold path and the four noble truths, and dukkha is the suffering of basically our life, right? So there's no human being that's lived um within life that hasn't suffered something. It could, like I said earlier, it could be of a bereavement, it could be a divorce, it could be a breakup, it could be a loss of a job, a loss of a career, a loss of a business, it could be social issues, housing issues, financial issues, it could be relationship issues, it could be family issues. So the reality is that suffering, pain, and adversity is always gonna come in our lives, but what are we going to do about it? Are we going to transcend it to the no-self? Are we going to transcend it to the noble eightfold path? And are we going to go on this journey? And I've said in my podcasts and audios and books and videos already that going on the journey is what the most important thing is, and everyone has their path, everyone has their road, everyone has a different way of how they want to live their life. So the reality is this that birth, life, death is basically part of life. So as a human being, we're all gonna go through birth, life, and death, which is gonna happen whether you like it or not. If you're um should I say, if you're born into the world, then eventually you're gonna pass away. So it's gonna happen. I know it's scary, I know the thought of dying is a very horrible thing to realize, and it's very, very hard. And I understand how difficult this can be for so many human beings because they're still in the self, suffering, pair, adversity, and and it's just an ongoing cycle that never changes. But you have to learn, we have to understand spiritual manga, the path and the road, and go on our own journeys, go on our own paths, right? And just before I finish with this podcast and audio today, there's just one more thing I want to mention, and I call this it, it may not be part of the Buddhist uh tradition or religion, but it's part of something that I've learned I want to share within this particular podcast and audio. I call it the six spiritual practices and the seven levels of helping other people. So, what are the six spiritual practices? Prayer, meditation, mindfulness, walking, journaling, and silence. What are the seven levels of helping other people? Level one, volunteering, the good level and helping other people, level two, jobs, careers, employment, the great level and helping other people, level three, business and entrepreneurship, the highest level and helping other people, level four, faith and spiritual, the spiritual levels and helping other people, level five, spiritually helping other people who help other people, the teacher levels and helping other people, level six, spiritually helping other people to spiritually change, the spiritual change levels and helping other people, and level seven, spiritually helping other people in spiritual truth, the spiritual enlightenment levels and helping other people. So, as part of the Buddhist tradition, and as part of the things I've learned, MAGA is the path from the road. What is the path from the road? Helping other people, giving back, making a difference, and making a contribution. The path of the road is helping other people. So, like I said, the path will always be different for every individual because we have to all find it in our own way, right? And all human beings need to find it in their own way. Every human being does, every human being needs to, right? But when it comes to the suffering, the pain, the adversity, the challenges, the difficulties, that's something we're still going to have to learn. And why, why, why why do we have to learn that? Because it's always going to be a certain part of our lives, which we can't you can't avoid it. It's like it's like, for example, it's like when you when look, when you're born into the world, right? When you're born into the world, you don't know what suffering, pain, and adversity you're going to experience, you don't know what life path or road you're gonna go down, you don't know what job and career you're gonna do, you don't know what business you're gonna be involved in. You do not know. So as we go on this journey, as we find spiritual maga, the path and the road, the noble eightful paths, the four noble truths, as we um do the six spiritual practices and the seven levels of helping other people, then slowly we find our own enlightenment, slowly we find our own truth, slowly we find our own inspiration, and slowly we find our own motivation to keep moving forward, to keep helping other people, to keep giving back, to make a certain difference and a contribution, and to end the do card, which is all part of all human beings, suffering pain and adversity. So, um I'll finish my podcast and audio for this message today. Spiritual MAGA is basically finding your own path and finding your own road. So if you do get to the point where you can overcome suffering, pain, and adversity, which I can't tell a human being what it will be for you because each human being is different, slowly after that, we can start doing the noble eightfold path and learn more about the four noble truths, and then slowly after that, hopefully, if we get an opportunity to, six spiritual practices and seven levels of helping other people. So I hope this helps those listeners who Want to go on the journey of spiritual change and spiritual enlightenment. And just before we finish, spiritual change and spiritual enlightenment is what Jehovah Jesus Christ and Buddha wants us to do within life. So we need to go on the journey, and all human beings will be different. So with a spiritual magga, find your own path, find your own road. Hopefully you can follow it. Hopefully, you can do it. And um let's see what happens, you know. Um, and hopefully we can end that suffering, pain, and adversity with uh within our lives, and find what the Buddha was basically talking about, Nirvana in life. You know, it'll be very important to find, and I hope we do as human beings. So thank you for listening, thank you for checking out the podcast and the audio as always.