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sand or living in reality and then the third one is i take refuge and sanga which is the community
as part of the community
i didn't know the community and the community and there's me
can i won with all beings and our beings are one with me
this is entering the reality of
communal life
so
you know buddha is
the focal point
and all the rest of the precepts are aspects of how to practice as buddha
when he says the ceremony of receiving the precepts as lay followers is called z k token of top it means our precepts
or ordination actually
entering the way
our ordaining to the way
kate ocado and shook a tokaido is k tokaido is layered nation that means
if not leaving home staying at home and receiving the precepts
in a shoe keto godot is leaving home and receiving the precepts are receiving the precepts and leaving home
and
oh
i'll explain later and so according to definition ordain the word or day means to invest with a function of an office for the functions of an office or position
and understand a buddhist ordination we should know that the functions we are invested with are those of a buddha
this is exactly the mean and meaning of upon receiving the precepts we immediately entered the position of all buddhas
to have say k tokaido is to acknowledge our true nature and confirm our intent to realize it fully
so ah to
enter the position of all the buddhas you know
i teach one of us is
an ordinary human and buddha
haha
we usually perceive of ourselves as ordinary human being
but we don't often perceive of ourselves as buddha
but we are both buddha and yeah and ordinary human being so our precepts come from the side of a buddha nature
our ordinary desires come from the side of
he will be
but human being and buddha and buddha or not to pick not to things
can we say ordinary a mind and put a mine or not to think
so this very important
point to understand in our practice
so ah at some point in our life ah
and if for some reason buddha nature is awakened in us
and then buddha nature becomes our teacher
so buddha-nature it becomes the teacher of human nature
so
when we practice
buddha nature arises and manifests through the precepts
and then boot it becomes our teacher but buddhism is some some buddha outside of ourselves
how are buddha nature is teaching and leading our human nature
when we are thoroughly enlightened
yeah human nature is completely subsumed in buddha-nature
that is it's it's expressed as human nature
so first there's just put a human nature and then when we enter practice there is buddha nature
and then when human nature and buddha-nature become one thing then we ended just into human nature again and act as an ordinary human being
but buddha nature is always leading human being
so we're our own teacher
so this is to take the position of all the buddhas
we take the position of buddha when we become ordained and when we take the precepts
so the ceremony itself consists of several significant elements to which we should give thought first there's the invocation in which the efficient the priest invites all buddhas and bodhisattvas
to be present as witnesses
so for the first thing we do when we have the ordination ceremony is the priest chance the names of the ten names of buddha
and invites all the buddhas and bodhisattvas to ah
witness or prior take part in the ceremony to to kind of invocation
and and the efficient acts as the representative but we should know that actually the buddha
the buddha's r r acharya or preceptor
therefore we we receive the precepts directly from all buddhas so the priest who is giving the conducting the ceremony is simply channeling
huh
that i kind of
representative of all the ancestors
the boons and ancestors and ah on the buddhas and answers that are coming forth and doing this ceremony that's the way we like to think about it
secondly all who wish to receive buddhist precepts
mr first purify themselves through confession desperate the ceremony and repentance in which when acknowledges past and present wrongdoing and delusion and we do this by changing the first of formless repentance and personally looking into our own hearts
so we say all my ancient twisted karma from beginning this greed hate and delusion born through body speech in mind i now fully about that's the first
having purified ourselves we may receive the buddhist priests the bodhisattva precepts that is the three refuges which i just talked about the a buddha dharma and sangha and the three pure precepts
three pure precepts
i'm tired i am
wow to do what is good and vowed to not do with is evil and i vow to
dedicate my life too
saving our beings
that's how we give up our small cells and bring forth are ah
buddha nature
the ten prohibitory precepts
ha during the ten for him entering as they called the ten grave precept they called various things that i like the term com
clear mind precepts
because they come out of clarity and they ah
give us some clarity in our life
so one side is prohibitory i don't do this don't do this don't do this the other side is permissive do this students to this to this so usually
the ten prohibitory precepts
our weather is what is given but
i have been using the both sides when i give the precepts
because i liked to have a balanced and to take it it works better for everyone that way
a prohibitory precepts that's more like hindi on aside my on appreciate the permissive precepts is more like my other side so our practice is not heaney and practice with my undermined
so we include bro i'd like to include both sides
so i've just read the precepts
but i won't discuss them
i resolved not to kill that's the prohibitory side but to cherish our life that's the permissive side
i resolved not to steal but to honor the gift not yet given i resolved not to misuse sexuality but to remain faithful in relationships i vow not to lie but to communicate the truth i vow not to sell or use the wine or drugs have delusions
but to polish clarity i resolved not to dwell in the mistakes of others but to create wisdom from ignorance i resolved not to praise myself and downgrade others but to remain up to maintain modesty putting others first
i vow not to withhold spiritual and material aid but to share understanding giving freely itself
i vow not to arbor ill will but to dwell and equanimity
i resolved not to abuse the three treasures but in respecting the buddha unfolding the dermot and nourishing this the yes
my precepts

so
having purified ourselves will be received the bodhisattva precepts that is that three refuges buddha dharma sangha the three pure precepts and the tin clear mind precepts
a total of sixteen to nirvana sutra set states although all living beings are replete with the buddha nature they must uphold the precepts as the cause before they can perceive it
so the precepts bring forth limited nature when we take the precepts even though we have buddha nature we have to open the door
down there in the cellar
have to open a door and let it come out
we have to stimulated we have to do something to stimulate our boat in nature's but when a baby is born you have to it somehow you know to make it breathe help it to to come forth
therefore let us give thought to the meaning the of keeping the precepts is exactly buddhahood
until we fully understand our true nature and penetrated thoroughly we may understand the precepts as guidelines for daily living in a framework for buddhist practice listen to interesting statement
some until we fully understand our true nature and penetrated thoroughly we may understand the precepts as guidelines for daily living in a framework for buddhist practice some precepts are guideline
the way to actually keep the precepts is to be fully enlightened
had until you're fully enlightened
he keep we use the precepts
as guidelines
ha
this is an important point and it's as if you know she's understanding of precepts
was
he compassionate do everything with a compassionate attitude
if you can do everything totally with a compassionate attitude you're keeping the precepts
until that time
please the precepts as a kind of help and guidelines so ah
the first refuge to take refuge in buddha or to return to buddha nature he turned to her true nature
it's the way that we keep the precepts
and call them
particulars of the precepts are simply aspects of that one precept if we can actually keep that one precept than we actually keeping all the precept
but
how we should really know what the presets are and study them
and use them ah
as a guideline
sometimes people say well you know i i really hesitate to take the precepts because i know that i can't keep them
what did the reason for taking the precepts is because you know you can't keep them
if you can keep them you wouldn't need to take them
so precepts are always something that is beyond our ability
to maintain
and ah practice is always beyond our ability to thoroughly maintain
that's why it works
it was something that you can make you attain completely
it wouldn't amount to much
so it's always something that we have to reach for
and by reaching for it it's stretches us beyond our abilities
and then we find out that we actually had that ability that we didn't know we had because we have to reach for it

while ashley an acknowledgement of i receiving the precepts and joining the family of buddha we were given iraq show which is a small buddhist robe which
how many people are wearing that this is a rubber strap simply holds it on
but it that small buddhist robe is the same is is that priests large from a strobe same thing but it's small
which each person soloist and takes a while to so because each stitch
he's done in agree
precise manner and it hopefully exactly the same distance apart
a little complex you know the way the road is
ah i kind of but but buddha apparently said something like the room is a
a picture of
rice fields and pads so it's like the shit the pass are going this way and the fields or between the parents so it's kind of like covering the earth
i'm as is the robe that covers the earth with ah
compassion and wisdom
and
choice made in a very specific way and the pieces are sewn like this
at a great strong thing when it's we can take one piece of material and cut it up into little pieces and then we saw it all back together again
best the nature of our lunch became run whole cloth cut it up and little pieces in print all back together in various shapes and forms
and then when we sit thousand
we resumed one piece of cloth again
and then movie leaves as in you take all the pieces in some together again
so
so this is the road
and
and it kicked me i could catch him you know means blood vein
blood vein of the buddha which runs through all the ancestors
the patriarchs and matriarchs and
down from from
descending from buddha
and so this is and then
and preceptors name appears at the bottom and then your name is written in when you receive this
ah jane certificate
and
oh the ancestors or
in a crash successive
vertical succession with buddha on the top and emptiness
what about buddha
and each one and standing on the head of the one
pretend the line runs the red
bloodline runs through out everyone and then comes back up from you and you're standing on shocking when he said
he's standing at buddha's head so it's it's a complete circle

so
the red line that connects your name and all other written their illustrates the truth that the presets are indeed the lifeblood of all buddhas so receiving the precepts is an important part of buddhist practice available to anyone
regardless of mental or physical ability it is the way by which we managed as the truth of our own buddhahood right here in the world right now so ah
yes we give this to anyone but you usually wait until someone to been practicing for a while and has sincerity of practice show some sincerity at practice and
has some connection to the saga
ah some connection to the dharma and some connection to the teacher
and
so this is a kind of confirmation
from the teacher and it's also
validation one's practice
and
when we can one becomes art
into the family of buddha
so

we have five people that we won't end of the arab nation for this time
and be some i'm also going to do something for the first time
which is ah
i'm going to have an ordination which is called act
les recognition
a relay teacher recognition
when we talk about lay people
ah it's a totally different
animal then when they talk about lay people in japan
as you know our practice is quite different in that practice mostly lay people
the people means someone living at home who practices but that isn't as a priest or monk and
i'm in japan the practices the property of the mark of the priests and monks and lay people are allowed to join that when they have time or interest
and but it is a whole group of lay people who simply have a certain kind of or nation which is
i but they receive a name which we all do i have been put his name ah
and but they don't have a practice
they simply belonged to the church so to speak
in america play people are the are the ah
the practitioners who actually create practice
so it's a totally different
practice for lay people here than it is in japan or most other countries
i'm so people have been play people have been practicing
sincerely and and regularly ah for years
ah
develop into
leadership position
so
ah does it need
now to recognize lay teachers
so
because the the only other alternative would be for everyone to become a priest at some point that that's not practical
i'm so there has to be some ah recognition of lay teachers as lay teachers and that i have an ordination ceremony that acknowledges that
so i've been thinking over this over for years and years and finally have i said i'm just going to do this i don't know how said that as i'm just going to do it and and figure out how to do it
so
upon a year to a couple of years ago i ain't as two people to so a green roxy which would be seen significant signify
that office that position
when with dolly potosi her on how was in the process of a sewing
we're actually when she passed away
and the other ones carrying dakota's who has been living in montana and
she has been shoe so
and
she's has a a family
she practiced at tassajara practice green gulch and for many many years and practiced here so she's a well rounded and
experienced practitioner and
she's going to be the first person to receive delay
admission
and so i'm going to do that ceremony
saturday after the layered nation
so that will be a significant step
and i think that after that he will see more i to lay teachers
in our saga
so said so many people have been practicing twenty thirty years you know
and so ah
the criteria criterion for doing this
ah is basically
ah how a person teaches through their presence
you can teach classes
he can teach
sighs and instruction you know you can teach a buddhist
dr and or but
that's a minor
the major and teaching is how you actually ah
present yourself or carry yourself as practice
and that's not something that
you can delineate and something that you feel
so people they will hunt you know when somebody is ready say
fruit growing on a tree
how do you know that when the when the fruit is ripe
well you know yes okay and then details right
and so that the fruit as a certain presence when it's ripe and if and a certain kind of softness it's not too
it doesn't give you a bad taste when you bite into it
sweet so
it's kind of like you feel the get the person is ready that's my my way of deciding these things
so ah that will be the a m
kind of significant step
and then when karen goes back to montana she's there for the branches period
shit shit people will be able to
she'll have some credential something that that that people can
i recognized that that someone has has
confirmed her
it has as a teacher i think they're significant
who an old lady you confirm
how do i know that you know you're really a teacher course leads people can talk in olympic and
two people the impression that a teacher but unless they have some background
people don't know else
so it's important
to verify someone someone else said that i was okay and just me
whoa
what everyone is invited to come and it really makes the feeling strong when the saga attempt
how do you have any questions
search and i love
i wonder if someone who is recognized by the
them as relationships is just confirms person is recognized as the weekends
where's brown okay the difference between
early recognition and diamond transmission seven sometimes people say well is this like dharma transmission
diamond transmission as a
position
sermon transmission is a president is is a priests in our in our tradition is a priest's transmissions it's it's a transmission of the lineage from ah
it was a priest and
who at hand
it gives the person had permission to become an abbott
head of a community and to give
for admissions
and to
can i be an independent teacher
play play recognition allows a person to ah
a saga
hum
and to introduce new people to practice and to maintain a small saga
if if a person was too
know
develop a large temple is a method then she will probably end up being ordained
is it is it as a priest
the council the quality of prepared to have the system carries themselves when they recognised just really does cancer sister's going that tracks
when songs recognize to straight away
the way
well
everyone is different
there know there's no
i know
mold that everyone fits into
did everyone is different
and he recognized a person's
understanding and development and
ha i would say that it's most cases probably close
here
it's an enlightened person
found my precepts
absolutely nuts
ten and like this person is already present in a truly nice
i'm sure bound by the precepts that's delusion
because the precepts are not something that binds you the precepts or something that frees you
the reason we take the precepts is to free ourselves from being bound by delusion
i didn't want to ask me question
did you ever hear golden chains

but sometimes we feel bound by the precepts
what i mean there
he spoke of the precepts is something that we need a tail were enlightened and i just i'm more of your language the precepts i saw a sandwich
for office are ya
it's not like a graduate what i meant by that is
using the precepts of guidelines
it's like a training wheels
until you can ride your bike you know
ah
so
we practiced with the precept as guidelines that not commandments
do they help us
to keep us from the he was focused on what is compassionate action and then when you're wearing your whole ah
i'm being is compassionate action
and they don't need to follow them so much you may be need to be reminded of of them but
but that's your that's your being is
isn't there a deeper meaning to the precepts how that you do to you you are oh absolutely
the absolute truth
yeah
that's
that's too much to go into know
no legs are getting paid