Right livelihood

5. Right livelihood 

Right view discern right livelihood from wrong : Scheming, persuading, hinting, belittling, & pursuing gain with gain. This is wrong livelihood.

Right livelihood are of 2 levels :

—"And what is the right livelihood with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions? There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones abandons wrong livelihood (as the list above) and maintains his life with right livelihood. This is the right livelihood with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions.

—"And what is the right livelihood that is noble, without effluents, transcendent, a factor of the path? 

The abstaining, desisting, abstinence, avoidance of wrong livelihood in one developing the noble path whose mind is noble, whose mind is without effluents, who is fully possessed of the noble path. This is the right livelihood that is noble, without effluents, transcendent, a factor of the path.”

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.117.than.html#fn-2

5 October 2023