For lay people, the right livelihood means earning one’s living in an ethical way, where one does business honestly, straightforwardly, without cheating others, and without lying. One also does not have an occupation that involves harming, like working for…

Once we have the right view, the first of the Eightfold Noble Path, the next one to cultivate is right intention. That means having the right motivation for living our lives and for practising the Dharma. We want it to be a motivation of renunciation where we are not…

If we have the correct view and correct intention (the first and second aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path), and when we come to correct speech, correct action, and correct livelihood, we will see that negative actions are antithetical to…

All the motivations for our speech come from our minds. Transforming how we use our speech involves looking at our minds and how we want to relate to other people. Naturally, we have a lot to purify and a lot to be attentive to as we go throughout the day.

On the Noble Eightfold Path, the right view and right intention come under the higher training of wisdom. Then the next three — right speech, right action, and right livelihood — come under the higher training of ethical conduct. The last three…