What the Buddha taught was a way that each human being can follow. He called this path as the Noble eightfold path , meaning a practice of eight interrelated parts. It is noble in the sense that anyone who walks on the path is bound to become a noble-hearted, saintly person, freed from suffering . It is a path of insight into the nature of reality, a path of truth- realization. In order to solve our problems, we have to see our situation as it really is. We must learn to recognize superficial, apparent reality, and also to penetrate beyond appearances so as to perceive subtler truths, then ultimate truth, and finally to experience the truth of freedom from suffering. Whatever name we choose to give this truth of liberation, whether nibbana, "heaven," or anything else, is unimportant. The important thing is to experience it. The only way to experience truth directly is to look within, to observe oneself. All our lives we have been accustomed to look outward. We have always been interested in what is happening outside, what others are doing. We have rarely, if ever, tried to examine ourselves, our own mental and physical structure, our own actions, our own reality. Therefore we remain unknown to ourselves. We do not realize how harmful this ignorance is, how much we remain the slaves of forces within ourselves of which we are unaware.
The Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right "samadhi". In the earliest Buddhism these practices started with insight, culminating in dhyana/samadhi as the core soteriological practice. The Eightfold Path teaches that by restraining oneself, cultivating discipline, and practicing mindfulness and meditation, monks attain nirvana and stop their craving, clinging and karmic accumulations, thereby ending their rebirth and suffering.! 
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Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om! ✨🕉✨
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