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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the section of Instructions for the Cook<\/i> that we\u2019re studying now for the online practice period, Dogen says, \u201cTaking the backward step of transforming the self is the way to bring ease to the community\u201d (Leighton and Okumura translation<\/a>).<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n In Asanga\u2019s<\/i> <\/a>Chapter on Ethics<\/a>, <\/i>he explains about this precept, \u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/span><\/div>\n The bodhisattva respectfully addresses to persons endowed with good qualities. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The bodhisattva generates a satisfaction The bodhisattva dedicates everything The bodhisattva remains vigilant, The bodhisattva applies wakefulness The bodhisattva recognizes her\/his own mistakes Ethics that procures, preserves, \u00a0 In the section of Instructions for the Cook that we\u2019re studying now for the online practice period, Dogen says, \u201cTaking the backward step of transforming the self is the way to bring ease to the community\u201d (Leighton and Okumura translation). This comment has a number of angles. One is foreshadow for several stories that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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With purity of heart, vowing to practice noninjury.
With purity of heart, vowing to practice beneficial actions.
With purity of heart, vowing to free all sentient beings.<\/i>\n
The bodhisattva who is based upon <\/i><\/span>
and maintaining ethics applies hearing,
contemplation, cultivation of calm and insight,
and delights in solitude. \n
teachers from time to time,
prostrating, rising promptly, and joining palms.<\/p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
from the bottom of her\/his heart
at all the merit of all living beings in infinity,
appreciating it and describing it in words. <\/p>\n
wholesome done with body, speech, and mind,
and all that is yet to do,
to supreme, right and full awakening. <\/p>\n
guarding the physical and verbal bases of training
with mindfulness and awareness;
guarding the sense gates,
aware of moderation in food. <\/p>\n
in the earlier and later parts of the night. <\/p>\n
and looks at her\/his faults; cognized and seen,
they will be relinquished. And any mistake is confessed as a lapse to the buddhas, bodhisattvas, and co-religionists. <\/p>\n
and increases wholesome factors such as these,
are known as the bodhisattva\u2019s ethics
of collecting wholesome factors.<\/span> <\/p>\n