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Taking the Precepts: An Introduction

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

CHAPTER

The Ten Cardinal Precepts

To take refuge in Dharma is to give ourselves to this truth. The truth of seeing things just how they are. To embody it. And then we turn to the three general resolutions, which are also known as the pure precepts. These again are aspirational vows that reflect how we would act in the world if we were fully enlightened. Doing no harm, doing good, liberating all living beings. A foundation to that is our zazen.

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