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THE WORD OF THE BUDDHA
Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahathera
[TOC] [Prev] [Next] [Bottom]Right Livelihood(Sammaa-aajiva)What, now, is Right Livelihood? 1. When the noble disciple, avoiding a wrong way of living, gets his livelihood by a right way of living, this is called Right Livelihood.
Now, Right Livelihood, I tell you, is of two kinds: Mundane and Supermundane Right Livelihood1. When the noble disciple, avoiding wrong living, gets his livelihood by a right way of living: this is called 'Mundane Right Livelihood' (lokiya-sammaa-aajiva), which yields worldly fruits and brings good results. 2. But the avoidance of wrong livelihood, the abstaining, desisting, refraining therefrom-the mind being holy, being turned away from the world, and conjoined with the path, the holy path being pursued-this is called the 'Supermundane Right Livelihood' (lokuttara-sammaa-aajiva), which is not of the world. but is supermundane, and conjoined with the path. Conjoined with Other FactorsNow. in understanding wrong livelihood as wrong, and right livelihood as right, one practises Right Understanding (1st factor); and in making efforts to overcome wrong livelihood, to establish right livelihood, one practises Right Effort (6th factor); and in overcoming wrong livelihood with attentive mind, and dwelling with attentive mind in possession of right livelihood, one practises Right Mindfulness (7th factor). Hence, there are three things that accompany and follow upon Right Livelihood, namely: Right Understanding, Right Effort, and Right Mindfulness. |
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