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What are the advantages or benefits concerning which the Buddha taught the practice ways and means to achieve?

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What are the advantages or benefits concerning which the Buddha taught the practice ways and means to achieve?

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There are three levels of advantages including ways and means to achieve them as told by the Buddha: 1. The Present Benefit (Economic and social profit) or Ditthadhammikattha. (1) An effort in earning livelihood (2) Protection of what one had acquired (3) Having good companions (4) Moderate way of living 2. The Future Benefit (The profit based on morality and virtues) or Samparayikattha. (1) Faith (2) Morality (3) Generosity (4) Wisdom 3. The Absolute Benefit (The highest profit through freedom from defilement and suffering) or Paramattha. (1) Morality (2) Concentration (3) Wisdom In detail these three practical method for the Absolute Benefit are explained as the Noble Eightfold Path: [1] Right View [2] Right Motives [3] Right Speech [4] Right Action [5] Right Means of Livelihood [6] Right Effort [7] Right Mindfulness [8] Right Concentration.