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Three trainings

Ethics, concentration and wisdom: the threefold structure of the Buddhist path.

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

The three trainings, sikkhā, are virtue (sīla), concentration (samādhi) and wisdom (paññā). They organize the eightfold path and Buddhaghosa’s Visuddhimagga. Virtue steadies conduct, concentration steadies the mind, and wisdom sees things as they are; each supports the next.