The Five Human ValuesDharma

Right Conduct

Living with integrity, responsibility, and righteousness. Allowing our actions to reflect our highest understanding.

Love as action is Right Conduct
Two schoolgirls read a textbook together, one guiding the other
Integrity is often quiet: one person helping another along.
What it means

Understanding Right Conduct

Dharma is Truth made visible. It is what we actually do when no one is watching, and whether our hands follow what our hearts already know to be right.

Right Conduct is not a rulebook imposed from outside. It is the natural behaviour of someone who sees clearly. When you understand that harm to another is harm to yourself, integrity is simply the shape your actions take.

It is also responsibility: keeping promises, finishing what we begin, and being accountable for the trust others place in us.

In the Foundation’s work

How Right Conduct shapes what we do

  • We follow the lead of people closest to the need. Our local team in Nepal knows these communities, their land, and their needs. We resource their work rather than arriving with outside solutions.
  • We finish what we start. We will give the Nepal housing project our full attention before taking on anything new.
  • We are accountable for every contribution. Donations are held in trust for the purpose they were given. As we grow, we intend to share clearly where support goes and what it accomplishes.
A practice for today

Living Right Conduct

  1. At the end of the day, sit for a few minutes without distraction.
  2. Recall where your actions matched what you knew to be right, and where they did not.
  3. Without judging yourself, choose one small thing to do differently tomorrow. Then let the day go.
Nepal flood housing

Help a family come home

Families in Nepal lost their homes to flash floods. Our local team is helping them rebuild. Every contribution, of any size, brings a family closer to a safe place to live.