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Being Upright: Zen Meditation and Bodhisattva Precepts (Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts)
by
Reb Anderson
Light and inexpensive things are picked up as if they were heavy and precious. Doors are opened a...
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be pleasant and inspiring to all others, animate and inanimate: gentle and encouraging...
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careful toward our sittin...
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Every bodily posture and facial expression is an excellent opportunity to encourage and ge...
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to assemble goodness in the world.
expresses respect and gratitude
witness the dependent co-arising of awakening with chairs, floor, meditation hall, and all beings.
The way to realize awakening is to realize the interdependence of each thing as it appears before you right now.
Each and every thing in the world can reveal the dharma, if you give i...
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This is especially true of anything you have abandoned or rejected—those things that you do not think...
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create many other verses to accompany your daily routines.
Such practices help to generate and maintain the warm heart of great compassion.
practice kind speech,
On the other hand, when you begin to practice good in this way, you see kind speech everywhere. By practicing kind speech, your vision is transformed.
when we see something good to do we should do it without delay.
saw the possibility of good, she deeply considered and consulted with others about its appropriateness, and she immediately acted.
in our attempts to learn how to practice good, the evaluations of others are essential.
Killing is the most extreme expression of ignorance.
It is a radical turning away from the true meaning of life and death.
Killing shows disrespect for the miracl...
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Killing emerges from ungratefulness for the most valuable gift of the universe.
Death is also born through the appreciation and support of the entire universe.
Life is killed by nonappreciation and nonsupport.
this killing of life, is the concentration of all nonvirtue.
Brahmajala Sutra
bodhisattvas must not willfully eat the meat of any living being.
our hearts are open to the painful dilemmas involved in supporting our lives.
not to close my heart to whatever suffering or harm might be entailed in feeding my body.
When we Zen students eat formally, we chant, “Innumerable labors brought us this food; we should know how it comes to us. Receiving this offering, we consider whether our virtue and practice deserve it.”
If there are laws that prohibit abortion, which force a woman to have a baby even against her will or better judgment, then there should be laws that ensure a decent home for the mother and child.
“Mercy killing” temporarily reduces a being’s level of misery, but it might interfere with his or her spiritual evolution toward enlightenment.
Such actions are not real compassion, but what I would call sentimental compassion.
We humans have an infinite capacity for delusion.
There is no life without death. There is no death without life. Life is not death and yet life and death are indivisible. They identify each other.
Life and death are not before and after.
death vividly and peacefully coexists with the fullest expression of life.
If you accept credit for work that someone else has done, if you don’t acknowledge the help that someone has given you, this is taking what is not given.
If you enter into an agreement with someone who is unclear or uncertain about what is expected, this can be a form of stealing.
If
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you enter into an agreement that you have no intention of keeping, this is a...
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many of our personal conflicts revolve around the issue of takin...
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The disciple never lost heart or complained about his teacher’s severity.
The ultimate meaning of the second Grave Precept is realized by clearly observing the suchness of mind and its objects.
What is the suchness of mind and objects? It is the interdependence of mind and objects.
mind is consciousness, which dependently arises together with objects.
mind and objects have no independent existence:
Self is not enlightenment. Other is not enlightenment. Enlightenment appears in the suchness of self and other.
there is no coughing or sighing in the mind.”
am you: you are me.
Misusing sexuality derives from greed,
