The significance of the Buddhist ethical precepts
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The Buddhist pancasila serve to encourage ethical responsibility
- The precepts are guidelines; they are not absolute
- It is entirely a personal decision whether you want to follow the guidelines
- The precepts are interpreted and applied in different ways
Peter Harvey's interpretations
- Within the first precept, Harvey includes the idea of any kind of injury as 'clearly against the spirit of the precept'
- 'Fraud, forgery and falsely denying that one is in debt' are embraced by the second precept
- 'The third precept relates primarily to the avoidance of causing suffering by one's sexual behaviour'
- 'Any form of lying, deception or exaggeration... is precluded by…
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