The great divide is the only divide there is. And everything on this shore seems to be so facile. As egoistical minds and as bodies, life-forms hanker after survival and pleasure.
What is right livelihood?
Is it detachment from anything but the immediate? Is pressing a button every hour right livelihood, when one doesn't know what that button triggers?
Is right livelihood possible without knowledge?
Right livelihood is a means to live an exploratory life without much contradiction. But is that possible? A life of begging, is THAT without conflict? What if you beg from the house of a butcher?
And isn't everybody a butcher?
So what is right livelihood?
Right livelihood is not possible without realization of the Absolute.
For rightness and goodness to be possible without enlightenment seems to me to be quite unlikely.
Nothing "right" is possible without realization of one's true nature.
Are sins, committed in ignorance, sins?
I know only wrongs, I don't know how to be right.
I strike my head against the wall and laugh.
That Thou Art.