Right livelihood

sammā-ājīva

Foundations & ethics Building on it Stage 3 of 8

Earning one's living in a way that harms neither others nor one's own clarity.

On the path: 3 · Living and conduct — What way of living creates the conditions for a clear mind? The five precepts, speech, action, livelihood, good friendship. → to this stage in the learning path

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Passages where sammā-ājīva occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Jaina scriptures · Tattvārtha(dhigama) Sūtra · English Primary passage

Thus realli the topics of Jainism arc throe : the suul-nou-soul (Jfvfijiva), the non-soTil (Ajlvs', and the pure soul (jiva). Thus the first chapter being introductory and descriptive of knowledge etc., the pure soul Is dealt with in the lOth, tho non-soul in tho 0th, and the soul^non* soul or embodied sonl In all the other, in., the 2nd, 8rd, 4th, fith, 7th, 8ib, and tth, chapters.
Logic & epistemology · Upāyahṛdaya (reconstructed text) · Sanskrit

vādī prāha / yadi kaścidvadedasti sattvo yāvatsanti prāṇā asti jīva ityādi / kathaṃ jñātam / aindriyakatvāt / yathā nirupadhiśeṣanirvāṇasyendriyairanupalabdherabhāvaḥ sattvānāntu na tathā / tasmātsantyeva iti jñātam /
Tipiṭaka · psm · Pāli

Vedanā jīvā ceva sarīraṃ ca… saññā jīvā ceva sarīraṃ ca… saṅkhārā jīvā ceva sarīraṃ ca… viññāṇaṃ jīvañceva sarīrañca; yaṃ jīvaṃ taṃ sarīraṃ, yaṃ sarīraṃ taṃ jīvanti – abhinivesaparāmāso diṭṭhi. Tāya diṭṭhiyā so anto gahitoti – antaggāhikā diṭṭhi…pe… ‘‘taṃ jīvaṃ taṃ sarīra’’nti – antaggāhikāya diṭṭhiyā imehi pañcahākārehi abhiniveso hoti.
Arthaśāstra · Arthaśāstra · Sanskrit

KAZ11.1.42/ āḍhya.vidhavā gūḍha.ājīvā yoga.striyo vā dāya.nikṣepa.arthaṃ vivadamānāḥ saṃgha.mukhyān unmādayeyuḥ, aditi.kauśika.striyo nartakī.gāyanā vā //
Indian tantras · Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa · Sanskrit

a, avivakṣitarāja, svabhāvapuṇyābhaḥ, lokābhaḥ, amitābhaḥ, mitābhaḥ, sunetrābhaḥ, susambhavābhaḥ, arthabhāvābhaḥ, adhṛṣyaḥ, amṛṣyaḥ, akarṣaḥ, akaniṣṭhaḥ, amalaḥ, analaḥ, dyuti pati mati sukha mukha nemi nimi ketu ṛkṣa divideva divya nābhi ravana lokaśānti upāriṣṭa dundubhisiddha śiva ākhyadivya duprasaha durgharṣa durālabha dūraṅgama durālabha dūrasthita ūrdhvadravyatama khadyota samahadyota adyota ṛṣabha ābha sumanāya sumana mahādeva sunirmala malānta dānta sami sucihna śvetadhvaja imi kimi kaniṣṭha nikarṣa jīva sujāta dhūmaketu dhvajaketu ( Vaidya 6 ) śvetaketu suketu vasuketu vasava pitāmah

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