Right Action
Right Action is action/behavior that supports Healing and Connection. In general, this means right actions meet your Seven Essential Needs, help others meet their essential needs, and are in Alignment with your Spiritual Ego. Right action is always non-threatening and not-violent towards all living beings.
The Three Rs of Alignment
Right action is one of a three-part trinity of considerations (Three_Rs_of_Alignment) that lead towards alignment and the reduction of disjuncture, the others being Right Thought and Right Environment.
Three Rs of Alignment > Right Action, Right Environment, Right Thought
Syncretic Terms
Right Action > Achara, Aligned Action, Ashramas, Dharma, Purushaarthas, Rtavan, Shariah
Related LP Terms
Right Action > Alignment, Discipline, Equality, Three Rs of Alignment
Non-LP Related Terms
Right Action > Ahimsa, Charity, Dharma, Duty, Karma, Mithra
Notes
Right action is action that
- meets one or more of your essential needs,
- helps meet their essential needs,
- is in alignment between your [Spiritual Ego and Bodily Ego]].
Right actions in non-violent action. Note, violence is not confined to physical violence. Violence is any physical, psychological, emotional, institutional, or spiritual act that leads to psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual diminishment.[1]
Right action is not confined to humans, but extends to all living beings and their ecosystems. Killing animals for food was, at one time, a requirement of human survival. Now, it is not. On a planet with the capacity and capability to feed everyone on a non-violent vegetarian diet, vegetarianism and ethical treatment of animals becomes an important point of right action.
Right action may be fully encapsulated by the phrase the Aligned responsibility to uplift all of creation.
Right Action is one of the Three Rs of Alignment, (the others being Right Environment and Right Action) that, when taken together, provide the foundations of Healing and Connection.
Taken together, right thought, action, and environment constitute the LPs Alignment Rule Set
In the literature
- Ahimsa अहिंसा) - non-violence,
- asteya अस्तेय - non-stealing,
- brahmacarya ब्रह्मचार्य - appropriate use of vital energies
- aparigraha अपरिग्रह - non-possessiveness
- sauca शौचा - purity, cleanliness
- IsvarapranidhAna इस्वरप्रनिधन - devotion, alignment with "higher force" (i.e. Self)
- Duty [2]
- Helping other meet their Seven Essential Needs[3]
- ...
Karma is an elaboration of the consequences of action and an admonishment to engage in right action because wrong action builds up (in our neurology, in our habits, in its consequences) and accumulates. [4]
The Christian Ten Commandments can be seen as a statement of right action. Do not steal, do not kill (harm), do not covet (be possessive), etc.
A Zoroastrian avowal of faith indicates the significance of "well-thought thought," "well-spoken word," and "well-performed act." [5]
Man of the statements made by Handsome Lake in his Seneca teachings, in particular The Great Message, are statements of right action, right thought, and right environment.[6]
Right action can be determined theoretically, i.e. by considering the nature of Consciousness as a loving, compassionate, connected, responsible, blissful and powerful expression of divinity, or it can be determined intuitively, by responding to triggering emotions (Sosteric, GA). As regards the theoretical determination of right action, right action is action that allows for the full aligned expression of the love, compassion, and bliss of Consciousness through the physical unit.
Because of the uncompromising nature of higher consciousness, full Connection of the physical unit does not occur in a physical unit that does not engage in right action.
Footnotes
- ↑ Johan Galtung, “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research,” Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.
- ↑ Vivekananda, Swami. "The Secret of Work." Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf
- ↑ Vivekananda, Swami. “Karma Yoga.” Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 1. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf
- ↑ See for example Swami Vivekananda book "Karma Yoga" to be found in Vivekananda, Swami. Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 1. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf
- ↑ Boyce, Mary. A History of Zoroastrianism: Volume One The Early Period. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996. p. 254.
- ↑ Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913.
