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RIGHT SPEECH, RIGHT ACTION, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
(Samma Vaca, Samma Kammanta, Samma Ajiva)
The next three path factors -- right speech,
right action, and right livelihood -- may be treated together, as collectively they make up the first of the three divisions
of the path, the division of moral discipline (silakkhandha). Though the principles laid down in this section restrain immoral
actions and promote good conduct, their ultimate purpose is not so much ethical as spiritual. They are not prescribed merely
as guides to action, but primarily as aids to mental purification. As a necessary measure for human well-being, ethics has
its own justification in the Buddha's teaching and its importance cannot be underrated. But in the special context of the
Noble Eightfold Path ethical principles are subordinate to the path's governing goal, final deliverance from suffering. Thus
for the moral training to become a proper part of the path, it has to be taken up under the tutelage of the first two factors,
right view and right intention, and to lead beyond to the trainings in concentration and wisdom.
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