We Are Born of Our Actions: Dancing with the Law of Karma
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What Are the Buddha's Positive Precepts?
The Buddha gives us pointers in the form of the precept. They're best thought of in terms of training principles that the Buddha has given us. It's mind to creative, rather than mind reactive. Increasingly positive mental states, increasingly less self-centered action and more open. In this way ethics, skillful action, skillful intentions, skillful mental states can be the basis for insight. The same goes for unskilled on wholesome actions. How do we discern then between these two type of actions, the skillful and the unskilled full? That's why that's one of the reasons we chant to the positive precepts at the beginning of this session.
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