Revisiting the Fourth Grave Precept
Manifest Truth. Do not lie. Looking back on what I wrote in April 2008 and where I’m at in September 2009 is a lesson in seeking the truth of one’s own life. I’m divorced because of this precept. Of...
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Proceed clearly. Do not cloud the mind. Why practice? The answer for me is that we practice because distraction does not work. Distraction is the essence of the Fifth Grave Precept. Everything about us...
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See the perfection. Do not speak of others’ errors and faults. Growing up I got such mixed messages about talking about other people. On one hand we would be punished for “talking back”, arguing or...
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Give generously. Do not be withholding. I tend to be a generous person. I am happy to buy lunch for a friend who doesn’t have the extra cash for a lunch out. I enjoy sharing with people my time, my...
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Realize self and others as one. Do not elevate the self and blame others. Like the Sixth Grave Precept I feel that this is a message I heard as a child, but equally similarly was the way in which the...
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Actualize harmony. Do not be angry. I made a mistake about this precept very early on, assumed this meant I could NOT get angry and gave my Inner Critic another way to beat up the times when I did feel...
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Experience the intimacy of things. Do not defile the Three Treasures. I find the precepts to have moments of clarity, times where I think it they are obvious and then suddenly I’m finding layers of...
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Vows
The entire time we’ve been working toward our ceremony CK and I have known that we wanted to include the first five Grave Precepts. Both of us have spent a lot of time with these vows. We’ve each...
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Other
Xenophobia is a great, big-points-in-Scrabble kind of word. Wictionary defines it thusly: Noun xenophobia (plural xenophobias) A fear of strangers or foreigners. A strong antipathy or aversion to...
View Article400,000 and Climbing
There was a memorial last night (1/19) marking the 400,000 life lost to COVID. Today the CDC website showed it, even though we knows we've been here a few days now. The thing about the inauguration...
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