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Why does Buddhism need to take precepts?Are you still keeping the precepts to keep the precepts?

Chinese Master 2016-10-08

Cultivate the mind and keep the precepts

Someone asked if you are obsessed with keeping precepts, right?

This is of course not in line with the ultimate truth of the Middle Way. Buddhism must stay away from all attachments and enter into the actual principles.

Keeping precepts is a good thing, but if you cling to them, it is equivalent to adding another layer of troubles on the basis of the inherent troubles, because you are attached to the "image" of keeping precepts.If we have troubles to ourselves because we want to keep the precepts, then what is the point of keeping the precepts?

Let me understand it more clearly, "keeping precepts" is the "convenience" of liberation.Keeping precepts is to provide us with convenience for liberation, and it is not the purpose of our practice;Practice is not just about keeping precepts.You must understand this.To put it another way, you cannot be liberated by keeping precepts alone. Why do you say so?Because you still have to get rid of your worries!Aren’t Bodhisattvas also eliminated a part of afflictions and realized a part of the Dharma body?Therefore, you must understand that keeping precepts is also to eliminate afflictions and realize the Dharma body!

To keep the precepts purely, the first step is to learn the precepts.Nowadays, many people take self-attachment as their core, stick to the precepts, and even do not understand the openness and obstruction of the precepts, making the originally perfect and harmonious law an immutable "stipulation", which is really contrary to the fundamental spirit of the Buddha's precepts.Therefore, if we study Buddhism and want to achieve liberation, we must follow the Buddha's teachings, study the precepts carefully, understand the spirit of the Buddha's precepts, and master the origin and interpretation of the precepts we receive. Only in this way can we practice rationally and in accordance with the law, and in the face of things, we will have the skillful means of not obeying the precepts.For the precepts, those who truly understand the precepts should be free and do their own good. They will not have the idea of ​​keeping precepts to "instruct" themselves. This is the true precepts.

“Precepts are the foundation of supreme Bodhi.” Precepts are the foundation of liberation. This is not just the teachings of our teacher Shakyamuni, but this is the teachings of the Tathagata in the three-year-old!Keeping precepts is a necessary method and method for every person seeking liberation.However, if you do not have a clear and correct view of keeping precepts, you will be more attached to it, and you will lose the root and pursue the end. This has become a common problem for many people now - "keeping precepts in order to keep precepts", which should not be the intention and view of practitioners of the Bodhisattva Path.

2024-02-05 18:06
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