Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now

by Surya Das

1. RIGHT VIEW: seeing things clearly just as they are 2. RIGHT INTENTIONS: understanding causation, cause and effect, and interconnectedness, impermanence, subjectivity, and unselfishness 3. RIGHT SPEECH: using words that are true, appropriate to the situation, kind, helpful, nonviolent, and conducive to the greater good 4. RIGHT ACTION: acts congruent with the basic Buddhist precepts regarding cherishing life and refraining from lying, stealing, sexual misconduct, and intoxicants that cause heedlessness 5. RIGHT LIVELIHOOD: engaging in honest, productive labor that harms no one and benefits people as well as oneself; making a life, not just a living; finding your true vocation 6. RIGHT EFFORT: balanced effort, diligence, energy, perseverance, and joyous enthusiasm 7. RIGHT MINDFULNESS: alert presence of mind and attentiveness to present-moment experience, outer and inner, without judgment or manipulation 8. RIGHT CONCENTRATION: being focused on the task at hand, giving special emphasis to what will ultimately be conducive to awakened enlightenment, spiritual freedom, inner peace, and deathless bliss.