The Eightfold Path

Buddhist idea of ethics is based on expediency. If you are engaged in the way of liberation, and you want to clarify your consciousness, doing that is inconsistent with certain kinds of action. So every Buddhist makes five vowels, five precepts. Every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. In each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all theother dew drops in that reflection - at infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image. The Japanese call that Ji-ji Muge. A Ji means a thing event, event, a happening. Between happening and happening, mu, there is no Ge separation,