Walking the high Path

Now what are the Ten Skillfull Actions? These are ten kinds of abstinence from sinful bodily, vocal, and mental action. Taken together they are called the Ten Skillful Actions because anyone who practices in this way is walking the high Path. The Buddha used this particular mode of speaking when teaching ordinary average people. When he wished to teach on a higher lever or in briefer terms, for the benefit of people with a more that average degree of understanding, he spoke in terms of the Noble Eightfold Path- right understanding, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihoood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. This Eightfold Path is a mode of practice rather above the level appropriate for the average householder. But its objective is just the same. It too aims at the attainment of nirvana, differing from other schemes only in intensity or level.