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How to practice the eight precepts?
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Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
Stop spinning and asking questions and listen to Shia.
Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
Try it out to see how it goes before making adjustments and trying again if you fail.
Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
We don't live Samsara, Samsara is living us...
"Form, feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness - don't care about us, we don't exist for them"
"Form, feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness - don't care about us, we don't exist for them"
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Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
I think it should be pretty easy because - as far as I know - the precepts are all of the kind "you should not". And honestly, what is easier than to follow an instruction of "you should not do this" and "you should not do that"?
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Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
So, you practice all eight and find them easy. or by thinking you perceive this? Is thinking you know the same as knowing you know? I know I would not think so, because not thinking is easier than thinking.
So know for thyself the Buddha implores. You find it easier to not know, just think? Or am I assuming to much to think that you think?
What are your thoughts/not thoughts on such a pressing issue being presented here to us - not being easier than its' opposite not not?
metta
edit to add: and hurry up, please, I am dying here as we do not speak, with each and every breath one closer to death! My time is short. I'm old.
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Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
An instruction of "do whatever you want, when you want to". That's probably the easiest instruction of all to follow.
Re: How to practice the eight precepts?
Doing in monastery would be ideal . You just follow the monk routine . Then there is a sense of serenity n nobleness if you feel aspires when upholding the precepts .
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