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Just this noble eightfold path: right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. That is the ancient path, the ancient road, traveled by the Rightly Self-awakened Ones of former times.
The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." [1] The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexküll, and is presented annually in early December. [2]
Right Livelihood can refer to: A Buddhist virtue articulated as part of the Noble Eightfold Path The Right Livelihood Award , an international award established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull.
Right Intention (sammā saṅkappa, S. samyak-saṃkalpa) Right Speech (sammā vācā, S. samyag-vāc) Right Action (sammā kammanta, S. samyak-karmānta) Right Livelihood (sammā ājīva, S. samyag-ājīva) Right Effort (sammā vāyāma, S. samyag-vyāyāma) Right Mindfulness (sammā sati, S. samyak-smṛti)
The Right Livelihood Award evolved from von Uexküll's opinion that the Nobel Prizes were relatively narrow in scope and usually recognised the work of citizens in industrialised countries. Uexküll first approached the Nobel Foundation with the suggestion that it establish two new awards, one for ecology and one relevant to the lives of the ...
Ole von Uexküll. Jens Ole von Uexküll (born February 24, 1978) is executive director of the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Award Foundation. Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards are given annually to people pioneering "exemplary solutions to our most urgent global problems" in the fields of the environment, human rights, peace or development.
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Right livelihood includes not trading in weapons or in hunting and butchering animals. Various suttas state that one should always have a mind filled with compassion and loving kindness for all beings, this is to be extended to hurtful, evil people as in the case of Angulimala the murderer and to every kind of animal, even pests and vermin ...