This qualitative research consists of three objectives namely: (1) to study the path to attaining enlightenment in Theravāda Buddhism, (2) to study the path to attaining enlightenment in Mahāyāna Buddhism, and (3) to analyze the Paths to Attaining Enlightenment in Theravāda and Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Firstly, the Thirty-seven Factors of Enlightenment (Bodhipakkiyādhammā) are the path of training to achieve Nibbāna in the Theravāda school. The Middle Way keeps avoiding between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification to go the middle of fulfillment of Noble Eightfold Path. The achievement of four Stages is the teaching of central element in Theravāda Buddhism through the accomplishment of the thirty-seven Factors of Enlightenment. On other hands, the Bodhisattva Path shows the way of practice to attain Buddhahood in the Mahāyāna school. The starting ‘Bodhicitta,’ the Bodhisattva’s career practices the six or ten Pāramitās and enters the ten Stages (Bhūmis) as the Fruition achievement to become a Buddha with various supernatural powers. Those Paths carry the differences of Path, Practical Methods and Fruitions attainment and the consistencies of Tisikhā Training leading to the same ultimate goal- Nibbāna as the mind of liberation. It proves the unified Buddhist Schools from the root of the Buddha taught as the practice of non-self. Lastly, the harmonization of the Arahant and Bodhisattva idea who forget themselves in the service of others by practice of Karuṇā (Compassion) and Mettā (Loving-kindness) that is an excellent application of the Paths to attaining Enlightenment in Theravāda and Mahāyāna Buddhism into Daily Life to build our daily life in peace and calmness. The training our mind abandons desires, attachment as the Buddhist Path purpose.

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