211 - Right Livelihood
8/19/202520 min
In this episode, Noah explores Right Livelihood, the next step on the Eightfold Path. More than just avoiding harmful professions, Right Livelihood invites us to reflect on how our work shapes who we are and how we show up in the world. Noah shares personal stories, analogies, and practical questions to consider, such as: Does my work align with my values? Does it cultivate compassion and presence, or leave me depleted and divided? Whether you love your job, dislike it, or are somewhere in between, this talk reframes livelihood as not about finding the “perfect” career, but about engaging skil...
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First 90 secondsNoah Rasheta· Host0:00
The Secular Buddhism Podcast is now on eightfoldpath.com with transcripts, AI chat, and more. Visit eightfoldpath.com. [gentle music] Hello, welcome back to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast. This is episode number 211. I am your host, Noah Rochetta, and today I'm going to share the audio of a Dharma talk I gave several weeks ago on the topic of right livelihood. I hope you enjoy this episode. Remember, as always, you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. You can use what you learn to simply be a better whatever you already are. Thank you for listening. Okay, so before I left, we were slowly going through the various parts of the eightfold path, and that's kind of where I left off in my notes, just jumping into the very next one, which is right livelihood. And, um, you know, let's just start with there. I think for me, right livelihood is one of those teachings that seems pretty straightforward on paper, uh, and I think the more, the more you sit with it, the more it invites you to have some deep reflection about it. I know