Precepts as Practice

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The precepts are not laws to obey but practices to undertake. Each one is a koan in the body — solved by the way you live, not by the way you think about it.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Robert Aitken

Lineage: Sanbo-Zen

By Robert Aitken

• The Precepts Are Aliveproverb
• Intimate with All Thingsproverb
• On Engaged Buddhism and the Bodhisattva Pathsaying
• On the Practice of Precepts as Koanssaying
• Mind of Cloverproverb

Sources

• contentThe Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics

  Robert Aitken