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 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

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

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

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 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?