Friends:

What is this critical Right Livelihood?

The Noble Eightfold Way, leading to Nibbāna, is simply this:
Right View, Right Motivation, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, 
Right Effort, Right Awareness and Right Concentration. 
But what is Right Livelihood?

The 5-fold Definition of Right Livelihood:
1: Earning a living not involving any trading with Living Beings.
2: Earning a living not involving any selling of Meat, Fish or Flesh.
3: Earning a living not involving any selling of any form of Weapons.
4: Earning a living not involving any dealing with Alcohol or Drugs .
5: Earning a living not involving any selling of any form of Poison. 
That is Right Livelihood!

The Characterization of Right Livelihood for lay people:
Any livelihood that neither involves any killing, injuring, harming, nor any
imprisoning of any living being, nor stealing, taking what is not given, cheating, 
any bribery or corruption, or lying, or false deceiving, tricks, or use of false 
measures and weights, neither sensual, nor any sexual abuse, neither the use 
or selling of alcohol, or of intoxicating illegal drugs, that causes carelessness, 
neither by oneself, nor by getting or inciting other employed beings to do so, 
such is Right Livelihood!

The Explanation of Right Livelihood for Buddhist Monks and Nuns:
Neither living, nor receiving food by astrology, soothsaying, prediction of future 
events, nor by palmistry, geomancy, dream-reading, charms and spells, amulets or 
fake divination, nor by any rituals, running errands or messages, political flatter, 
arranging marriages, funerals or divorces, medical praxis, or by producing art or 
poetry, or by professional disputation or debate, this is Right Livelihood!

Knowing right and wrong Livelihood as right and wrong Livelihood, is Right View.
Awareness of presence of right and wrong Livelihood, is Right Awareness.
Exchanging wrong Livelihood with right Livelihood, is Right Effort...

Further study of Buddhist Right Livelihood (Samma-Ajiva): 
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/samma-ajivo.html

What is Right Livelihood?

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest! 
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ ]
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