Eight Fold Path

• 439CRight Motivation

  Examine Buddhist biographical stories to identify how right motivation led to beneficial outcomes and wrong motivation led to suffering. Compare the motivations of different Buddhist figures and analyze how their intentions shaped their actions and legacy. Create detailed personal narratives about times when changing your motivation transformed a difficult situation.
• 430AFour Noble Truths Overview

  Experience the basic human feelings of sadness, wanting, and feeling better through simple activities; recognize that everyone feels sad sometimes and there are ways to help ourselves and others feel better; and practice simple kindness actions that help when someone is hurting.
• 430DFour Noble Truths Overview

  Examine personal and social sources of suffering through contemplative inquiry; evaluate how understanding the four truths transforms relationships with disappointment, conflict, and change; and implement mindfulness practices that cultivate emotional resilience and compassionate response to others’ pain.
• 439DRight Motivation

  Investigate the layered nature of personal motivation by uncovering hidden drives beneath surface intentions; evaluate how cultural influences, peer pressure, and personal insecurities affect your motivations; and implement systematic approaches for aligning your actions with wholesome intentions while recognizing the complexity of human motivation.
• 410DMindful Listening Practices

  Generate therapeutic-level listening skills for holding space during difficult conversations; test approaches for listening across strong differences of opinion without becoming defensive; and design mentoring programs where older students teach empathetic communication skills to younger peers.
• 411DRight Speech

  Develop comprehensive personal practice integrating right speech with the broader eightfold path, establish advanced contemplative rituals for speech awareness, and create structured approaches to speech-based self-examination that support ongoing ethical development and mindfulness cultivation.
• 410AMindful Listening Practices

  Demonstrate good listening by showing quiet body, watching eyes, and still hands during story time; use listening games with partners where one person talks and the other shows they are listening; and describe what it feels like when someone listens carefully to you.
• 411ARight Speech

  Listen to simple stories about characters who choose kind or unkind words, and practice retelling these stories while demonstrating the difference between helpful and hurtful speech through voice, facial expressions, and body language.
• 410BMindful Listening Practices

  Execute structured partner listening exercises where one person shares while the other demonstrates complete attention without interrupting; show how to give the gift of listening in classroom situations; and complete listening challenges that help solve problems between classmates.