Skip to content

SuttaDay

  • Home
  • Browse Suttas
  • About

Theme: Work & Livelihood

Suttas for work and livelihood: integrity, pressure, ambition, and stress – how to work without losing your mind or values.

Start here when work is heavy: align effort with integrity and reduce unnecessary strain.

Right Livelihood in Buddhism: Be of Benefit Through Your Work (AN 5.177)

“AN 5.177 ‘The Business Sutta’ illustration contrasting dishonest trade with a fair, honest market stall run by a chibi monk.”

Some work helps. Some work harms.

AN 5.177 is unusually direct about that, and it raises a harder question: what does your work actually put into the world?