We now come to the most complicated of all. Number four, Marga. Marga in Sanskrit means
 "path," and the Buddha taught an eightfold path for the realization of nirvana. This
 always reminds me of a story about Dr. Suzuki, who is a very, very great Buddhist scholar.
 And many years ago, he was giving a fundamental lecture on Buddhism at the University of Hawaii,
 and he got to-- he'd been going through these four truths, and he said, "Ah, fourth
 noble truth is called a noble eightfold path." The first step of a noble eightfold path is
 called shokken. Shokken in Japanese means "right view." For Buddhism, fundamentally,
 is right view, right way of viewing this world. Second step of noble eightfold path is-- oh,
 I forget second step. You look it up in the book. Oh, well, I'm going to do rather the
 same thing. What is important is this. The eightfold path has really got three divisions
 in it. The first are concerned with understanding. The second division is concerned with conduct.
 And the third division is concerned with meditation. And every step in the path is preceded by
 the Sanskrit word samyak, in which sam is the key word, in Pali, samma. And so the first
 step, samyak drishti, which means-- drishti means a view, a way of looking at things,
 a vision, an attitude, something like that. But this word samyak is, in ordinary texts
 on Buddhism, almost invariably translated "right." This is a very bad translation. It
 does, of course-- the word is used in certain contexts in Sanskrit to mean "right," "correct."
 But it has other and wider meanings. Sam means, like our word sam, which is derived from it,
 complete, total, all-embracing. It also has the meaning of middle-weighed, representing,
 as it were, the fulcrum, the center, the point of balance in a totality. Middle-weighed way
 of looking at things, middle-weighed way of understanding the dharma, middle-weighed way
 of speech, of conduct, of livelihood, and so on.
 Now this is particularly cogent when it comes to Buddhist ideas of behavior.
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