One and the same Path

And there are numerous other terms all referring to this same Path. A person who not having studied the matter very closely, comes across such a large number of equivalent terms may well jump to the conclusion that they refer to several different things. In reality they all refer to this one Path. for instance the Task (kammapatha) is simply the Path to be walked: The Ten Skillfull Actions (kusalakammapatha) are also simply the Path: Morality, Concentration and Insight (sila-samadhi-panna) are the Path; the Nobel Eightfold Path (ariya atthangika magga) is, once again, the Path; and even to see all compounds as transient and unsatisfactory, and all this as not selves- this too is the Path. Anyone who has been thinking of these various names as all denoting different things would do well to correct this misunderstanding. All these differient names denote one and the same Path looked at from different points of view for purposes of instruction.