Right Livelihood Business

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

What makes a successful business?

What things does a successful business do?

• 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.

8M Groups:Group 1AliJade S-JKatieSophie

Group 2AngusEmmaLuna

Group 3BethBradleyKatrina

Group 4CallumClarissaMiaOwen

Group 5EdwardJeremyLouise

Group 6FloJonathanJess G-HSam

Group 7Jade BJess ALukeMatt

8O Groups:Group 1AJJayMariaRiya

Group 2AlexGeorgeLucasVicky

Group 3CaitlinJack JLiamShannon

Group 4CeciliaHannahJack ANathan

Group 5CharlieJessMollySam

Group 6ConorLewisMark

Group 7CoralDaisyRobWenjie

8T Groups:Group 1AaronIzzyLaurenNathan

Group 2AlexCrystalKate Liam

Group 3AmyHarryLucyOllyTyler

Group 4AngusHollyKrishanShaunagh

Group 5 BillyEdHannahSaskia

Group 6CarlaJacobMattSteffiVicky

Group 7ConnorEllaMollySam

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…!

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

3 join in the presentationuse some key words

4 make a good contribution to the presentationuse some key wordsdescribe some Buddhist teachingsstate your own opinion about whether you would like to run a Buddhist business

5 make a very good contribution to the presentationuse lots of key wordsexplain some Buddhist teachings and say how your business would follow themexplain 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?