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| ===Right action=== | | ===Right action=== |
| Right action (''samyak-karmānta'' / ''sammā-kammanta'') can also be translated as "right conduct". As such, the practitioner should train oneself to be morally upright in one's activities, not acting in ways that would be corrupt or bring harm to oneself or to others. In the Chinese and Pali Canon, it is explained as:<ref name=BMaha/><ref name=BSac/><ref name="Thanissaro Bhikkhu"/><ref name="cbeta.org"/><ref name="Taisho Tripitaka Vol Page 814"/> | | Right action can also be translated as "right conduct". As such, the practitioner should train oneself to be morally upright in one's activities, not acting in ways that would be corrupt or bring harm to oneself or to others. In the Chinese and Pali Canon, it is explained as: |
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| {{quote|And what is right action? Abstaining from [[murder|taking life]], from [[stealing]], and from illicit [[Buddhism and sexuality|sex]] [or sexual misconduct]. This is called right action.|Saccavibhanga Sutta}}
| | And what is right action? Abstaining from murder,taking life, from stealing, and from illicit sex or sexual misconduct. This is called right action. |
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| {{quote|And what, monks, is right action? Abstaining from taking life, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from unchastity: This, monks, is called right action.|Magga-vibhanga Sutta}}
| | And what, monks, is right action? Abstaining from taking life, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from unchastity: This, monks, is called right action. |
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| For the lay follower, the ''Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta'' elaborates:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.176.than.html |title=Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta |accessdate=6 May 2008|publisher=Access to Insight |last=Thanissaro Bhikkhu }}</ref> | | For the lay follower, the ''Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta'' elaborates: |
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| {{quote|And how is one made pure in three ways by bodily action? There is the case where a certain person, abandoning the taking of life, abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his... knife laid down, scrupulous, merciful, compassionate for the welfare of all living beings. Abandoning the taking of what is not given, he abstains from taking what is not given. He does not take, in the manner of a thief, things in a village or a wilderness that belong to others and have not been given by them. Abandoning sensual misconduct, he abstains from sensual misconduct. He does not get sexually involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with flowers by another man. This is how one is made pure in three ways by bodily action.}}
| | And how is one made pure in three ways by bodily action? There is the case where a certain person, abandoning the taking of life, abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his... knife laid down, scrupulous, merciful, compassionate for the welfare of all living beings. Abandoning the taking of what is not given, he abstains from taking what is not given. He does not take, in the manner of a thief, things in a village or a wilderness that belong to others and have not been given by them. Abandoning sensual misconduct, he abstains from sensual misconduct. He does not get sexually involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with flowers by another man. This is how one is made pure in three ways by bodily action. |
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| For the monastic, the ''Samaññaphala Sutta'' adds:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.02.0.than.html |title=Samaññaphala Sutta |accessdate=6 May 2008|publisher=Access to Insight |last=Thanissaro Bhikkhu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.11.0.than.html |title=Kevatta (Kevaddha) Sutta |accessdate=6 May 2008|publisher=Access to Insight |last=Thanissaro Bhikkhu}}</ref>
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| {{quote|Abandoning uncelibacy, he lives a celibate life, aloof, refraining from the sexual act that is the villager's way.}}
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| ===Right livelihood=== | | ===Right livelihood=== |
