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which proposes various moods and situations for its approval. Right Speech and Right Action are the tools of Right Livelihood because whenever our actions and speech are faultless, our means of livelihood will become faultless too. Right Effort and Right Mindfulness are the tools of Right Concentration. The three virtues can be compared to three friends who enter the forest together. One of those friends sees a champac blossom out of reach on a tree and would like to get it for himself. One of the friends thus stoops down so that the others can stand on him. The second friend stands on him with the other on his shoulders and in that way they are able to reach down the flower blossom. In the same way, Right Effort has to bend down in order that Right Mindfulness can stand on him. Meanwhile Right Concentration sits on the shoulders of Right Mindfulness and is the one to pluck the blossom. **Ways of Analysing the Eightfold Path** **Threefold Analysis** If the Eightfold Path is analysed into three parts then it is divided as follows: with Right View and Right Intention contributing to our wisdom; Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood contributing to Self-Discipline, and; Right