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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
The cause of these pains has been said to be desire. That desire is of three kinds: desire for sense-enjoyments, desire for birth, and desire for riches or for not taking birth. If desire is destroyed, all pains are ended.
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The purport of all this above description is this that ignorance is the root-cause of constant wanderings in the world. The means of removing ignorance and with it, all its family is to follow the eight-fold path. The Buddhist literature is full of references to this Path.
Buddha Charya Hindi page 126 Maha suti patthana sutta of D. N. 2: 22.
From the above Hindi description this 8 fold path is described below:
"(1) Samyak dristi To know rightly and with full belief-the pain, its cause, its prevention and means of its prevention.
(2) Samyak sankalpa-firm determination of being rid of karmas, of being free from enmity, of following non-injury.
(3) Samyak Vachana-to give up falsehood, backbiting, harsh speech and chattering.
(4) Samyak Karmânta-to save himself from injury to living beings, from taking anything not given, from wrong sexual enjoyment.
(5) Samyak Ajiva-to have right livelihood and to relinquish unjust one.
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