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Oct 12, 2026
Bhante JoeHOST
And what this means is that in order to make our mind healthy, we have to refrain from doing things that make it unhealthy.
Bhante JoeHOST
And this is essentially what the five precepts are about.
Bhante JoeHOST
They're intimately tied to meditation.
Bhante JoeHOST
It's a really important point.
Bhante JoeHOST
If a person doesn't keep the five precepts, if they don't have the intention to keep the five precepts, then actually their meditation will go very badly.
Bhante JoeHOST
It won't be possible to progress in meditation.
Bhante JoeHOST
So I remember when I was young, um, I first started meditating, and I found that it just gave me an incredible amount of discipline compared to what I'd had before.
Bhante JoeHOST
It's kind of you just turn on the motor and nothing happens, and it's just uncomfortable.
Scott MandelkerHOST
Uh, but it- it's, you know, like in Buddhism, in original Buddhism, Pali Buddhism, the focus is on sila, samadhi, prajna, as I've said a hundred times.
Scott MandelkerHOST
Sila, sila, Pancha-sila, five, is basically the moral- the basic moral codes, which is the same as Advaita Vedanta talking about Yama-Niyama.
Scott MandelkerHOST
And so first comes some kind of understanding of, uh, moral restraint or morality, which is particularly right speech, right action, you know? Don't ...
Scott MandelkerHOST
It's a restraint of our mouth against harsh speech, malicious speech, which means intending to hurt, divisive speech, meaning dividing, wanting gossiping, and wanting to break people up.
David RoylanceHOST
There's other teachings beyond this, but this is where you get started.
David RoylanceHOST
You learn the three universal truths, the four noble truths, the eightfold path, and the five precepts.
David RoylanceHOST
You'll learn all of these as part of this program over the several Sundays and Wednesdays that I'm teaching.
David RoylanceHOST
Then there's what's called the Brahma Viharas.
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David RoylanceHOST
If you still experience anger, sadness, frustration, and all these other discontent feelings, there are certain things about this world that you currently don't understand.
David RoylanceHOST
And that lack of wisdom is keeping your mind in the unenlightened state.
David RoylanceHOST
The mind lacks wisdom about things like the three universal truths, the four noble truths, the eightfold path, the five precepts, all these different things that the Buddha taught.
David RoylanceHOST
The mind lacks wisdom of those things.
MikeGUEST
Apparently satisfied with my answers to these and other questions, he invited me to rejoin this martial art group, which I like- I readily agreed because I sort of felt it was, was really right.
MikeGUEST
Next, I was asked to take the vows of the martial art group, which included the Buddhist Five Precepts.
MikeGUEST
Two of the Buddhist pri- two of the Buddhist Five Precepts were subject to further interpretation relative to their practice.
MikeGUEST
The first precept, which, which is intend not to take away the breath of any sa- being, was interpreted to also include do not eat the flesh of birds, land animals, or fish.
MikeGUEST
All have wild minds, and when ingested, the spirits in the flesh would cause adverse effects upon the mind in Samatha meditation The fifth precept, which is intend not to take drugs or alcohol, and was explained to me, these cause a loss of control of the mind, which is essential for training the mind for trance states.