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3 Pure Precepts, Saturday Lecture

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right
so
this morning we had what we call on budisa
you know of styles and a half of the service is a story is not right
hello
which is this morning we had a knock-on goodies at the ceremonies
i'm really start to ceremony is
basically
hello

the two aspects of practice
why is repentance and the other is renewing our vows
so did the parts of the ceremony
repentance is the beginning and then paying homage to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas
and i've been taking the for recyclables
and then the refuges and then the brief and a three give pure precepts
and the ten clear mind presets
so this is the essence of the ceremony
and this ancient ceremony in india was called to placenta and it was done twice mostly men months on the phone was on a new moment i think
and
he was
mc's ceremony basically
and the management can mean and then if anybody had transgressed the precepts
the will say so and then
some kind of result would happen whenever that was
if
sanderson severe penalties
well will go into that
in a church
you know will the buddha was teaching in the year twenty doesn't hundred years or so ago
i'm
the students his disciples just practiced with him
but then when the buddha passed away the most can read the council to council it's actually going after the other where they decide try to decide on what was the to teaching in the buddha and how should we follow it and so they created a lot of
ceremonies and and
citrus and study
in order to maintain what they have felt with the practice because and she was gone
so practice because more formal when the teachers got
would we were practicing which is accuracy my teacher
there wasn't so much he didn't he didn't and class or anything like that he does does and we want to just practice
ah later
get my study in but we didn't really study but he was there
we the students shown studying
by themselves in different teaching and pretty soon it was a whole teaching gun a contingent
so but that's inevitable in many teachers have emerged from that from a rushes lineage
so i wanted to talk about repentance first like this means she says all my ancient twisted karma
the beginning this greed hate and delusion born through body speech and mind i now fully allow
so
there are two kinds of repentance
this particular kind of repentance is like where we actually talk about something like the evil karma you know perpetuated by me it's not that we say i did something and i repent for that is not talking about particular aspects ever
our behaviors you're talking about something much larger
so on my ancient
swifty karma ancient beings can be anything you want to me someone might think it means from the beginning of time
which is not true
the early extension of our than ever
adam and eve beginnings
we're in this played at this moment we are an extension of all the people that came before us and something about us yes something about them that's in us
you were born with a certain energy or a born with karma we might be for everything so
w f one characteristics karma means
a coalition volitional action that has is strictly speaking karma image of volition of action that you do maybe on purpose and maybe not it could be on purpose
ah
consciously or can be on purpose subconsciously as a matter of fact so much of actually turns punches and we don't even realize it
this kind of with this is redress in a way
but that on the conscious
our conscious activities but our subconscious your karma evil is one way or the original as evil evil com
but we say
then just center said
the
and then i changed it to tangled because it is tagged with or entanglements this well it's about it's about how we get caught by or
feelings emotions and thoughts
so all my ancient whatever we want to say karma
tangled twisted evil
from beginnings greed hate and delusion
so beginning this means i don't know how far back you know
but delusion is like the parent and greed and ill will or like the children
so great and ill world are fostered by conclusion if we didn't you wrote if we were living in delusions we wouldn't have these kinds of
activities which cause problems for everybody and ourselves
and then is
we had a delusion which are born through body speech and mind
how we act how we speak and how we think
holidays are or create karma
either good or bad but this was talking about
baton
so we say i now fully about name's okay
and i'm not covering up anything that i know about on the visual stuff that i don't know about that i can't tell you about it
and they should probably most of our
and the subconscious actions with
how do we visit us how do we
find our way through the world likely
without causing problems and harm it's like a minefield
how do we navigate this minefield is called
i'm not leaving any trace
im sinne we say how do you
met how you find your way without leaving any trace so what it means a lot leaving any trace doesn't mean that nobody will remember you
it means that you know
yeah you know how to stepped between minds so you don't love the that you will create problems for yourself and others
who
so there's two kinds of
dentists to levels what is the level of
type r m
how we create karma in the enroll in the world and with and
then repent
because we don't know a good
it's just realizing
there we do three problems
and then this repentance which is kind of virgin
so
this is repentance a form
and thousand is formless repentance
in other words in surgeons everything's fallen off although feelings thoughts emotions arise
we don't take him up
i remember suzuki roshi my teacher who's to say
of the precepts are kept when you sit says it like that haha of course you know you can't do anything
the no brainer
a skirt
it is not that you can't do it he has been you don't take anything up because it's largest that you could take up everything rush you through your mind your emotions come up but you just let them go to really can have different and built thought gonna he just let them go you totally free
not everything
simply breathing
paint the lake city on a cushion
it's called nirvana because it's called operation even though before we have leverage we just think it's torture
when you first began to say is twitching but after what after well you see that it's really liberation

so this is formal formal
acknowledgement for will allow
and southern is formless the inform but farmers
and then are the averages
so we're homage image image extending our gratitude to everyone who came before us who've developed his practice
so we have faith gratitude for all the ancestors of handed them the dharma through all these centuries
if it wasn't for shakyamuni buddha it wouldn't be here here
so we say homage to the seven buddhists before buddha this is a tricky statement because it seems to include good as one of the seven pupils are
of his work we're to happen that nearly as good as the seventh one but is there to sell how can a good but this lab differing it's tricky and we can explain that
explanations but i get they there
so the reason we say how much and seven borders before buddha is because
shakyamuni when he went out to
find his way after leaving the palace for

since when he actually became became enlightened he said i didn't invent this i just found the old ancient way of all the buddhist that came before me
so in the history in the
ah
the history of a buddhist
the mythology of hello
there are the obvious that's a seven buddha's but innumerable buddhists
before shockey mooney and money she she's just the
i can for this particular age
twenty five hundred years
for the next british told my trail
maitreya means loving kindness the buddha who are actually establish loving kindness in the world so that's so my trailer or in in the west messiah
fading actually but
and then there's more jittery bodhisattva bullish apply wisdom
some to police bodhisattva a shining practice although was located where resharper bodhisattva of compassion and all the ancestors from jackie rebooting and all such a shocking when he put it so
these are i can't but actually
the aspects of myself
so shakyamuni buddha of us that are practicing are called shakyamuni buddha when we at the original meal chap reductive may change the name of shakyamuni buddha
we used to say all the shocking put us all the innumerable shakyamuni buddha's all over the world
so yes this this man than twenty five hundred years ago but of affectionately everyone that practices
is shakyamuni buddha practicing in exactly the same way
so maitreya buddha we think well he's in in a to heaven and incident that some kalpa will come down but actually we are maitreya buddha in other words salvation comes from yourself you develop loving kindness in yourself as your aspect of life
and you're muttering and buddha
you may not be perfect
but imperfection is called practice actually imperfections felt enlightenment
and then we say how much to manjushri buddhist the bowtie sackler pragya it pregnant is ah
intuitive wisdom
which is not dependent on
distress a thinking mind
so when we use our intuition will we trust our intuition and act of our intuition we want weren't just rebuild the settler
practice sincerely
we are samantha backdrop on schaeffer and when we've practiced with compassion
we're lucky dishwater going to shatter so we shouldn't think necessarily and this great british out with as be outside of myself
although they are examples examples for our practice but there are examples for us because they represent our own
qualities
and help us to develop those qualities or bring out those qualities sometime people offer incense to smart the are pretty insensitive ability teachers were in order to
activate those qualities in themselves in ourselves
so then we take them for bodhisattva vows
these are numberless and gonna save them delusions are inexhaustible about in them dominator balance about to enter them but as ways unsurpassable i vow to become it so if modi shot of editor
translated in various ways this happens to be on translation
so the first line
ah
bodyshop as are numberless and have to save them i wrote this why
how come
but
so what did what are we going to say people what are we going to say and cat and a number of this beings from
well from delusion and suffering
buddha said said
my teaching is just all about how to be how we alleviate delusion and suffering
let's minutes about
so sheltering and confusion
but this for browse our in response to buddhists four noble truths very basic pounds
simply a response to the basic for number choose
things are subject to suffering this ease
and satisfactory enough and something that's always a problem because there's always a big problem if you don't have a big problem
yeah to live
huh
so buildings are numberless i vowed to save them from suffering and addition that responds to the first noble truth
and delusions are inexhaustible and vowed to in them
if your response to the second one is snake and truth is there is a way
what he deal with all this

you boot it
that is to said the physician and it for the physician has a cure
so the analysis is the first to choose your suffering yeah and well i got i got something for you
that's the first few truth the suffering you a confused
listen to this
in search of is the dharma gates are boundless i vowed to enter them dominates our like ways to practice what are you enter into salvation of one as salvation is sell saving yourself from your own delusions
saving us from our own delusions in our own confusions
so dominates boosted and mama little women there is the dominate the empty gate to ah
oh
we can say
dharma gives me be studying the sutures are some agenda has been actually was the dominator our daily activity every moments activity whatever we meet is a dharma gates
and way to practice
we say well i kind of the zendo and i can see the just does the time here questions and flourish nation and
well three innings of and tax practice but actually that is package it's only once i can practice your this letter practices the moment you the in the door when you do
when you go outside how do you practice well whenever you meet is the dominate
but ever we need is a terminal gate
whoever you mean
it's a delegate to
enlightenment
so how what you act how you respond to your environment having sponge and people that you're talking to that the people that you're interacting with that mean your work in there wherever you are
how'd you get from dharma cage
are everywhere there's no place where there's no gamergate with no dominant it just open
so the vow is to enter them to practice in this way
who
good to see
whenever it's in front of you as what it really is not just what you think is to be open to address whatever is in front of us it really is
that's the hardest part that's why practice is difficult that's so much because your opinion helix that's easy was really difficult
if how do you see everything you meet as it really is
who
so we think delusions delusions own delusion is kind of funny translation
a chinese say afflictions
an affliction so can like the stuff about bothers us the stuff it's a stumbling block you stuff that stops us or confused dash
our hurts
so you can easily say afflictions are inexhaustible they are
i volunteer in there because it's hard to and delusions i'm not sure that we want to indonesians
we don't try to in divisions
two because delusion bears the scene of enlightenment and a withrow delusions we don't have the see anything to practice with

oh so buddhist way is unsurpassable
poor
usually sufficient try and prove it
you should try and see where it's not really true
we should check into little pieces and see if it still life
that's good
even though we didn't you can't practice without quickly
but when you really see what it is in great shape for comfort because you've proven it to yourself
so you shouldn't take somebody else's words work even though we have to do that movie begin to practice we take it her faith okay i'll do this but it's okay to up down
doubt
is the i'd like to think of that like an airplane faces the engine in the wings
and really makes everything go but doubt is a tale that such wait a minute you know without me you can't steer correctly
for that's very important because it balances year
energy
which faced as much to go wherever it wants to go but down knocked down exactly but circumspection circumspection says way be careful you know sure

so i be say buddhist way is unsurpassable
i vowed to become it usually egypt and found to attain it but we didn't like to use the word attain because snacks are gaining mind
but i'm in the hutch riches attain
but it should learn attainment it's an entertainment of nonattainment
they've become it and that's some funny too
but we really mean be one with it it's not something outside of you
burst in it
i'm using immersing body and mind people in the way
that's what
so then we come to the refuges
so
we've done repentance we homage amateur all the buddhas and bodhisattvas and then we were taken the for valves and then we recite the refuges
the three refuges are called the three jewels
buddha dharma and sangha
he's the three legs of a stool a practice
but the three legs of the part of practice the cauldron a practice the cauldron of practices his big park
and the fire of dharna second is cooking and
and all the sages and thrown into it and they
they cook in his soup of doormats
so the three refuges the three legs of path
i take refuge in buddha i took refuge in tyler i take refuge in sangha there are three aspects three kinds of
the refuges refuge actually mean
you know says i some safe place
now appear in the ocean and get washed up on a desert island
as a refuge and
but there's a new yorker cartoon agriculture science these people are city of other
desert island this little pumpkin in is a pay toilet
hello
snowy can't go on this weekend so
oh where shall we got the one body well buddy
three treasures
one bodies reaches uses that buddha dharma sangha
just one three aspects of one thing
gazebo what does it mean what is the many a few treasures here you mean to be good
another be yourself
don't say that everybody
be or yourself
that's what it's about not being your true self he say before of being immersed in body and mind in the way awakening to mind so immersed in body mind in the ways it's like i'm going to say i've gotta become it
immersing in other it as in says throw your body throw yourself into the
ah ha
feel yourself
three the house of buddha and don't look back
so it
that's ah
what it means is rape
returning to your shoes off
so refugees to return to come back to yourself to come back to your juicer
but were born when her baby were going up
we don't stray from much yourself but when after we start protecting ourselves
can the world
we lose herself easily and we don't we lose our connection with everything and then we make these connections which are extracted from reality
and then we look for ourself again
that's called practice we find it in practice
so that's returning to
myself
so one body three treasures is
buddha dharma
as one body we are
so to take refuge in put it down on sunday is to take refuge in herself then there's the manifest few trenches manifest few treasures is like
the historical buddha the such as study
learning about buddhism that's the manifest
three treasures and then if the maintaining three treasures maintaining three treasures is like
taking care of you practice place taking care of
making everything work
fundraising
creating a space for practice

so to take refuge in dharma you say before all been before our beings means that you stand up
and you know hundred and the world
yeah
is sending out a voice into the universe
before our beans enter it had been but it could be beams entering the immersive ocean and voters way
so this is dharma which is called practice
taking refuge in dharma is like taking refuge in the practice taking refuge in
fashion and entering the donna cage
and to take refuge in some gas before all beings bringing harmony to everyone free from hindrance
this is harmonious activity which is actually
the result of the other two
without saga is
and practice doesn't work you may think it works people will come in and have
doesn't instruction and learn something about sitting down in putting your legs together lingo and in they got something they do but it's not practice practice is done with somebody else
we say only a buddha duggan's had only a buddha in a buddha
chanel a rich you can if you do it by yourself this come in the history com pachinko buddha one who just practices by themselves
it doesn't have any benefit for the world
but in the wow we say saving all the edge
so
that may seem impossible
but it doesn't mean that you're gonna go out and mean everybody in the world
you just take care of what about you when you take care of which when you can take care of
that's saving our beach
just take care of can you can take her
so saga is is actually i don't want to see the most important it depends on what you're looking at right now i said it's the most important because i'm shedding light on it because of its importance
there all important they're all the most important thing
at the most important thing about the most important things is saga because saga creates space for everyone to practice
and saga created to sit the space for
spreading year
i'm spreading a diamond in the world without trying to proselytize

well how can get people to do something you simply act out your virtuous activity
and that emotions people
could we don't practice together it is no side but a prism just fade away
so
unselfish practice meaning
you will help other people to practice before you attempt something for yourself
it's not about what you do for yourself although it's not not about what you do for yourself
when you help others
that's called and like nativity
you know but if you say this isn't like that emily destination
you just do without expecting anything
we sit zazen for the second lesson
but at the same time
he joined together to do that and that's porch
we support each other's practice
the main thing is every supporter each chose practice
actually estimates the main point

live you take the three two percents
the pure presets or chested in various ways here we say i got a refrain from evil and i try to do what is good so that's the kind of duality between very evil but it's okay
we want to avoid evil to
the dough again with we could dog in comments on each one of these presets
but i will go into that because
too much
so to refrain from all evil karma patient i from to start creating your comment if you can and vow
to do it is good though insists it is the teaching of onodera sandy action body is the path as the practice and retire from mean and boating is what we say you can put perfect enlightenment
who's to say
i'm on a tiresome we accept voting before we translate into transpiration business to me better snatch of a minute to other people
how can play perfect enlightenment
so ah
rupert to train from evil and to do with is good kind of like opposites
ah
but to and then the third when i out to live and be lived for the benefit of all beings so
can therefore or to work for and to be lived it means that we merge
we can't just do simply by our show we do something something emerges when we merge
when we merged with others something emerges
which is beyond good and bad or good and evil
yeah and you can also say
the theme of doses it is transcending profane and holy taking self and others crass
transcending profane and holy girls i mean it's a delusion and enlightenment
prevents delusion holy his enlightenment so it's going beyond good and bad
merging with r beings that's called transcendence transcend doesn't mean
goodbye
going into
becoming one with
you know it's like
how do you transcend the pain in your legs when you should serve it
as an example
well can become one with it
she tried to escape it it always lived there will always want if you try to shape working flight
the only way to be free of it is to go directly into it in giggling with it
then you know opposites the only reason
do you have suffering is because you create an episode and then more to create an efficient than what you suffer
so transcendence is don't create an episode
an opposition
just be one that
none there are the tenth grade precepts
call grave
i found out to kill
i've learned that take management years
don't steal from take something
i learned not to miss your sexuality
i love to retain refrain from our speech i found had to sell the line of division i've done that to slander i volunteered to face up with the expensive others i vow not to be ambitious collecting and i'm not to have written a will can say don't angry
harbor ill will
the words to let it dominate you
to cultivate the hungry settings we have a safe place where
so i just want to say the mid seventies know each one of these in chicago on
i mean immense a school that can presets are dealt as calonge in the the end of their current system so if we we have to see his precepts hundred i'm three different level one level is the literal
level i learned that to joe
well
okay that's it
don't have to kill what
not to kill people
well known to kill animals now i'm not to gel
vegetables that not to kill fleas
ants flies
you know within our body we have billions and billions of little animals that are colourful cleaning us up
and then you go like this
when you think happens to them they already announced
so everything is eating everything else you have to realize that everything is eating and being eaten
if you don't read today you'll be a hybrid model
you can't stand it so you need anything
if it helps to it but really say don't i need
but
everything is that is born is
food for something
link or something
that net that's how the world survives
so
in another sense life itself cannot be killed
the foremost change
the this transformation
cause transformations and the forms are continually changing like this form will change that will change this one of the things that will change is changing
and will change so this is how can you kill anything really
so
the third that's the second best the second understanding of pushups and third understanding is you know that you can't kill anything nothing can be killed life itself can have to kill on the other hand don't take life
don't willfully take like because everything is boy wants to live
and then in the middle is the bodhisattva
presa the witches
given the i understand both of these aspects
what'll i do
well i do that com living present
sticky messages if you only follow the precepts by rote
scope he is a strict where heresy as an autistic
but if it's a mistake to only
practice bebo the preset
you have to understand hat because life is organic it's not it doesn't fit the grid of don't do this don't to that
so we have to realize through wisdom how to
interact with life in a way that uses the precepts as guidelines but they we have to be able to understand how to
have the freedom to interact
yeah with in a way that fits the situation
if
hum
ah
we are just aged versus this
analogy
if you're if the your cousin is escaping or somebody's escaping from the nazis and you're hiding them in your basement and they are knock on the door
yeah
who is someone so here is it now
well are you following the precepts are now because the precepts they don't lie i cannot tell a lie yes he's done their investment
that's yeah
so you can follow the precepts according to wrote yet to follow than its guidelines
that is
george washington in the territory
now that's good to so sometimes we have to follow them around sometimes we have to follow them
when not only
so how you living precept is just have active world with compassion
if you act with true compassion in the world
and try to really understand what that means that you'll be following the presets because the presenter are based on compassion for
so let's calm being roulette
following his armor
an empty out of the
sanga

hey have time for questions
said after eleven
can any questions
the
and even if you cared
it can't be a xander
we're still in zazen for the yeah
you said practice the question was if you if you could use some situation where you can't sit thousand mississauga and you sit by yourself we said brent yeah whenever because like
the know this is a case of
true precepts
what'll i do now
i shouldn't be sitting in the nintendo doesn't investment but i can so you can't follow the precepts of preset meaning your pure
a decisions your now
other foods and
bound is michelle i mean reviews this words life is my intention to do that my promise
so yes he can't do that they should pay so that's something but if you be sit by yourself that's different
yeah
sure so people often say of located in home and of course you know i can't tell you when he said when and three
it's now to be attending there but i practice
does he like i practice together
you can sit anywhere anytime and good
but you know why we're doing it
we should know why i'm doing thousand
you know you can only do it were own self satisfaction that's it easily terminate the eagle practice
i do anybody have another question
you're when you're talking about repentance he said that what we chant is the formal of valves then he said yeah there's an informal don't are are endless formless now and you'd say with that settings such as above
yeah thousand is me informal that
for spotless
way back there back
oh yes when asked
salvage yeah
ever oh probably
i can come up with another word train
since saving you from yourself the stamps yet saving you from yourself
by eliminating yourself
but not being a desk to yourself basically salvation is
finding true freedom by not being attached herself salvation
foundation
salvation of freedom go hand in hand i rich a veteran treat him that means yeah freedom pure the latter synonyms
actually liberation liberation is others than the average
being liberated from yourself from your ego
so you find your true self everywhere
that's the point
course
well
sometimes he goes to talk about translations just seems lives the academic but really if we talk about translations we can get into the high season korea
and at and the question that we just heard racism part a problem that reserves problem when she said if we use translations that are associated heavily associated with christianity or judaism it kind of causes a problem so safe salvation or did you say that my
rear and messiah magazine low mean that they're you know the same people
well in ideas the surface you could see me it's a similar i had a similar idea in that says in the days
someone will come that will save money
this in that sense in everything
here i wanted to say that it's like salvation and like sin and evil
messiah is really begun and island not want to say that i would not want to say that my tray and means messiah it i would say that it doesn't yeah okay you can always argue analogies only go so far as just want to say something analogy only go so far and no is incomplete so just
take it from him but i meant it to be not what it could be
thank you
what thirty
yes second another way as well as then just put another way to say these
sort of parallel things if all these different traditions is that when you
the notion of messiah is laden with all this stuff but studying buddhism from understanding my prayer as it can also be seen as and of an extra fresh light on what messiah my really yeah
the how it has come to me i would rather see the same as read in the difference yeah so
you can you can get it you know you can make arguments from yeah she all kinds of differences and and this is not the answer but yeah i just made it on a certain level in this someone's photos of salvation for someone is can become to that's a fence as far as it goes
what gonna do
the
and anyone who too many pounds at your our panelists and
this is the last question
i must be an advocate well i was just thinking about the fact that here aren't there are christian teachers saying that is that we are the only and price moves this much more lifelike your turkey yeah well politically of and the their these icons
and then there is the icons are simply representatives of ourself
if we expect some being to condemn you know
i don't think we should wait
how do not wait
did you