Ethical Insight

• 439CRight Motivation

  Examine Buddhist biographical stories to identify how right motivation led to beneficial outcomes and wrong motivation led to suffering. Compare the motivations of different Buddhist figures and analyze how their intentions shaped their actions and legacy. Create detailed personal narratives about times when changing your motivation transformed a difficult situation.
• 439DRight Motivation

  Investigate the layered nature of personal motivation by uncovering hidden drives beneath surface intentions; evaluate how cultural influences, peer pressure, and personal insecurities affect your motivations; and implement systematic approaches for aligning your actions with wholesome intentions while recognizing the complexity of human motivation.
• 439ERight Motivation

  Implement regular motivation checks and adjustments, appreciating the value of benefiting others, and analyze how motivation functions within the eightfold path using personal examples.
• 439BRight Motivation

  Identify your intentions before everyday activities and notice how different motivations affect your actions and feelings; practice checking your motivation during the day and adjusting when you notice selfish or harmful intentions; and demonstrate understanding that the same action can have different effects depending on your intention.
• 439ARight Motivation

  Name simple intentions for daily activities and demonstrate kind actions; practice noticing how different intentions feel in your body (excited, calm, worried); and show caring intentions through helping others with awareness of how helping makes both people feel.
• 105BRight Motivation in Leaders

  Analyze stories of helpful leaders and generous people by comparing characters who help versus those who are bossy, identifying the three antidotes (generosity, loving-kindness, wisdom) in story examples, and creating their own stories about kind leadership.
• 105CRight Motivation in Leaders

  Investigate the three poisons in leadership decisions by observing how greed, anger, and ignorance affect group dynamics, recognizing these patterns in themselves and others, and implementing strategies to transform poison-motivated actions into helpful ones.
• 105DRight Motivation in Leaders

  Apply right motivation principles from the eightfold path to evaluate leadership decisions by practicing the assessment of personal and others’ motivations using Buddhist criteria, implementing right intention in their own leadership opportunities, and designing intervention strategies when witnessing harmful leadership motivations.
• 105ERight Motivation in Leaders

  Analyze the motivations behind leaders’ decisions by evaluating evidence of the three poisons versus the three antidotes in their words and actions. Compare how leaders with altruistic versus self-serving motivations impact their communities, then develop criteria for assessing whether leadership decisions align with Buddhist principles of non-harm and benefit to others.