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Via Dhamma Wheel // Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Harming Living Beings

 

RIGHT LIVING
Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Harming Living Beings

Harming living beings is unhealthy. Refraining from harming living beings is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning the harming of living beings, one abstains from harming living beings; with rod and weapon laid aside, gentle and kindly, one abides with compassion toward all living beings. (MN 41) One practices thus: "Others may harm living beings, but I will abstain from harming living beings." (MN 8) There is a gift, which is a great gift—pristine, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unadulterated—that will never be suspect. Here a noble person gives up the destruction of life and refrains from it. In doing so, one gives freedom from fear, hostility, and oppression to an immeasurable number of beings. (AN 8.39)

Reflection

The path factor of right living is often called right livelihood, and it has to do with the practical effects of how we work in the world. Right livelihood is primarily a teaching for laypeople, as monks and nuns engage in no worldly affairs. Here we will focus on the so-called "ethical precepts," the first of which is to take care not to kill or cause injury to other living beings. This is the central organizing principle of all Buddhist ethics.

Daily Practice

Ethical integrity can be seen as a gift that you give to others, the gift of harmlessness. It is not a set of rules you have to follow but a set of guidelines to help you calibrate your behavior toward promoting welfare, both your own and that of others, and avoiding harm. Try to gradually develop this attitude so that you will be gentle with other creatures as an act of generosity rather than of forced discipline.

Tomorrow: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
One week from today: Abstaining from Taking What is Not Given

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Attaining the Way is not difficult,
Just avoid picking and choosing.
If you have neither aversion nor desire,
You’ll thoroughly understand.
A hair’s breadth difference
Is the gap between heaven and earth.

—Jianzhi Sengcan, “Faith in Mind”

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Make your effort diligent, yet joyful. Don’t get caught up in expectations. And always remember, there is no such thing as a “bad” meditation.

—John Yates (Culadasa) and Matthew Immergut, “Six Ways to Prepare for Meditation”

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