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Ep. 39 - The Eightfold Path: Right Action and Livelihood

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Practice of Right Lingo, Is the Fifth Step on the Noble Eightfold Path

Right livelihood can be seen as the expression of bodhijita, you know, what the Dalai Lama called the kind heart. Right speech, right action and right livelihood are an integral part of this path of liberation. Whatever work we do ... can be performed with the noble aspiration of benefiting beings. But this takes awareness, this takes practice. What's the attitude in our minds, in our hearts, as we're doing our work? Can we be cultivating this sense of service?"

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