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Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods
2021-05-30 Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods 47:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Determining to keep precepts is a way to cross the floods. They help check and restrain urges of gratification, malice and escapism. Coming from a place of ethics and mutuality naturally gives rise to pleasant states of being, giving us an orientation we want to remain with rather than following the immediate pull of inclination.
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