Right Livelihood Business

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Right Livelihood Business

• Right Livelihood
• Earning money in a way that follows Buddhist
  principles

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What makes a successful business?

• What things does a successful business do?

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• You are bidding against other teams for a grant
  to start a business the money is coming from a
  Buddhist organisation and so you need a good idea
  based on right livelihood principles, as well
  as other Buddhist and business ideas.
• You need to put together a presentation about
  your proposed business, which you will present to
  the judging panel. Your presentation should last
  for 5 minutes.
• The Chair of the judging panel will ask
  individuals from each team questions about the
  proposal, so you all need to be fully prepared.
  The questions will include
• Tell me about a Buddhist teaching that your
  business tries to follow (different group members
  will be asked about different teachings).
• Tell me how the business does this.
• Tell me what you think is good about the way a
  Buddhist business is run.
• Tell me what you think might be difficult about
  the way a Buddhist business is run.
• Tell me what would be good about working for your
  business.
• Tell me whether you think that the people
  involved in your business would be happy about
  the way your business is run.
• You should think about these questions in your
  groups, but not prepare answers to read out.

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8M Groups

• Group 1
• Ali
• Jade S-J
• Katie
• Sophie

Group 2 Angus Emma Luna
Group 3 Beth Bradley Katrina
Group 4 Callum Clarissa Mia Owen
Group 5 Edward Jeremy Louise
Group 6 Flo Jonathan Jess G-H Sam
Group 7 Jade B Jess A Luke Matt
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8O Groups

• Group 1
• AJ
• Jay
• Maria
• Riya

Group 2 Alex George Lucas Vicky
Group 3 Caitlin Jack J Liam Shannon
Group 4 Cecilia Hannah Jack A Nathan
Group 5 Charlie Jess Molly Sam
Group 6 Conor Lewis Mark
Group 7 Coral Daisy Rob Wenjie
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8T Groups

• Group 1
• Aaron
• Izzy
• Lauren
• Nathan

Group 2 Alex Crystal Kate Liam
Group 3 Amy Harry Lucy Olly Tyler
Group 4 Angus Holly Krishan Shaunagh
Group 5 Billy Ed Hannah Saskia
Group 6 Carla Jacob Matt Steffi Vicky
Group 7 Connor Ella Molly Sam
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Things you could prepare

• A PowerPoint
• A booklet saying what your business will do
• A video showing your business
• Props to show your business
• Anything else you can think of!

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Buddhist Teachings

• The three universal truths
• Life involves suffering, everything changes,
  there is no permanent you
• The four noble truths
• Suffering can be stopped by following the
  eightfold path, which stops craving
• The eightfold path
• right vision, right intention, right speech,
  right action, right livelihood, right effort,
  right awareness, right meditation
• The five precepts
• to abstain from harming another living thing,
• to abstain from taking the not given,
• to abstain from false speech,
• to abstain from sexual misconduct,
• to abstain from intoxicants

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3 join in the presentation use some key words
4 make a good contribution to the presentation use some key words describe some Buddhist teachings state your own opinion about whether you would like to run a Buddhist business
5 make a very good contribution to the presentation use lots of key words explain some Buddhist teachings and say how your business would follow them explain your own opinion about whether you would like to run a Buddhist business
6 do all the elements of level 5 in detail (using examples) analyse and evaluate the difficulties your business might face
7 do all the elements of level 6 in detail (using examples) think about how different people might react to or be affected by your business. Would the business work in real life?