![[info icon]](./../../../img/question_16.gif "Summary: Five kinds of wrong livelihood for lay followers.")
"Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
"These are the five types of business that a lay follower should not engage in."
©2001 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 3 July 2010.
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