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## The three pure precepts

**First, I vow to cease from evil.**

*This is the abiding place of laws and rules of all Buddhas.*

Will you maintain this?

**Second, I vow to do good.**

*This is the Dharma of sammyak-sam-bohdi; this is the way of all beings.*

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**Third, I vow to do good for others.**

*This is to transcend the profane and to be beyond the holy; this is to liberate oneself and others.*

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## The ten grave precepts

**First, I vow to refrain from killing.**

*Life is non-killing. The seed of Buddha grows continuously. Maintain the wisdom-life of Buddha and do not kill life.*

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**Second, I vow to refrain from stealing.** 

*The mind and the externals are just as thus. The gate of liberation has opened.*

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**Third, I vow to refrain from sexual misconduct and being greedy.** 

*The three wheels (body, mouth, mind; greed, anger, ignorance) are pure and clean. Nothing is desired for: go the same way as the buddhas.* 

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**Fourth, I vow to refrain from telling lies.** 

*The Dharma wheel unceasingly turns and there is neither excess nor lack. Sweet dew permeates; gain the essence and gain the truth.*

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**Fifth, I vow to refrain from being toxic and ignorant.**

*It has never been:  don't be defiled. It is indeed the great clarity.*

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**Sixth, I vow to refrain from talking about others errors and faults.**

*In the midst of the Buddha-Dharma, we are the same Dharma, the same realisation, and the same practice. Do not (let them) talk about others errors and faults. Do not destroy the way.*

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**Seventh, I vow to refrain from elevating myself and blaming others.** 

*Buddhas and ancestors realised the absolute emptiness and realised the great earth. When the great body is manifested, there is neither outside or inside. When the Dharma body is manifested, there is not even a square inch of soil on the ground (earth).*

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**Eighth, I vow to refrain from being stingy, especially with the Dharma.** 

*One phrase, one verse, ten thousand forms, one hundred grasses, one Dharma, one realisation, all Buddhas, all ancestors. Since the beginning there has never been being stingy.*

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**Ninth, I vow to refrain from indulging in anger and hatred.**

*It is not regress, it is not advance, it is not real, it is not unreal. There is illumined cloud-ocean, there is ornamented cloud-ocean.*

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**Tenth, I vow to refrain from speaking il of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.**

*Expounding the Dharmas with the body is the refuge of the world. Its virtue returns to the world of omniscience. Whole heartedly revere and serve it.*

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