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Taking the Precepts: An Introduction

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

CHAPTER

How to Integrate the Precepts Into Your Life

The first step is one of beginning to recognize our errors, whether they're of thinking or speaking or acting. This really is to begin to see our suffering clearly. Our suffering can actually be a great help because it's like a big arrow,. A big red arrow, saying, attachment here. That whatever is going on, we need to look right there. We also need to understand this universe that we are part of as a great round. So that whatever we send out, we eventually receive back.

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