The Precepts Are Alive

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The precepts are not a set of rules imposed from outside. They are descriptions of how a person of true nature naturally behaves.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Robert Aitken

Lineage: Sanbo-Zen

By Robert Aitken

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

From The Mind of Clover

• On the Practice of Precepts as Koans
• Mind of Clover

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Robert Aitken, The Mind of Clover

  The Mind of Clover: The Precepts Are Alive