FIFTH STEP

                             RIGHT LIVING

  WHAT, now, is Right Living? When the noble disciple, avoiding a

wrong way of living, gets his livelihood by a right way of living,

this is called Right Living.

  Now, right living, let me tell you, is of two kinds: 1. When the

noble disciple, avoiding wrong living, gets his livelihood by a

right way of living-this is called the "Mundane Right Living," which

yields worldly fruits and brings good results.

  2. But the abhorrence of wrong living, the abstaining,

withholding, refraining therefrom-the mind being holy, being turned

away from the world, and conjoined with the path, the holy path

being pursued -: this is called the "Ultramundane Right Living,"

which is not of the world, but is ultramundane, and conjoined with the

paths.

  Now, in understanding wrong living as wrong, and right living as

right, one practices Right Understanding  [1st step];  and in making

efforts to overcome wrong living, to arouse right living, one

practices Right Effort  [6th step];  and in overcoming wrong living

with attentive mind, and dwelling with attentive mind in possession of

right living, one practices Right Attentiveness  [7th step].  Hence,

there are three things that accompany and follow upon right living,

namely: right understanding, right effort, and right attentiveness.