As relevant, perhaps more so, is how many of these are reflected in our lives and to what degree.
Guidelines such as this -- and there are many (others may be more relevant for some)-- might be viewed as prescriptive (helping you to attain a more integrated and successful life) and/or descriptive -- a benchmark for assessing ones current state and progress. They may be good criteria for selecting a teacher (if on is inclined to find such). The "do you have any matches / fire?" story of SBS as a child seeking a teacher appears to reflect this approach. Using these criteria to assess (not judge) a teacher's students, recent and long term) progress may be useful. If after 20-30 years of practice a particular teacher's students are still harming others by thought, word and/or deed, are impatient, intolerant, often flaring up with anger, lacking compassion, not honest with themselves or others, are unable to restrain impulsive action, etc, the teacher's methods may be suspect. Same for judging one's progress on a particular teachers path. Or simple used as a periodic human potential checkup of ones state of inner health. Areas of shortcoming identified might be helpful in order to target more specific methods to heal and strengthen that area. And criteria that appears irrelevant or outmoded for this age, or ones own life and situation, could be dropped and revised.
