Wrong Mindfulness: The Noble Eightfold Path as a Critique of Its Own Extraction

This Dhamma discourse on the Great Forty has been set rolling and cannot be stopped by any recluse or brahmin or god or Māra or Brahmā or anyone in the world. Mahācattārīsaka Sutta (MN 117.36), in Ñāṇamoli & Bodhi ( 2009 , p. 650) The Noble Eightfold Path is not an à la carte menu of distinct items that can be picked out individually to serve a goal or purpose as someone sees fit. It is an…