{"id":304,"date":"2008-02-06T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-15.html"},"modified":"2008-02-06T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T21:59:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-15.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Zazen for Beginners (We’re All Beginners) XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ‘Precepts<\/span>‘ are at the heart of our Practice. Not hard and fast laws or ‘Commandments<\/span>‘ from heaven, each is an arrow pointing out a good path.<\/p>\n

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All basically come down to this …<\/div>\n

Seek, as you can, not to do harm … and to live in a way healthful and helpful to yourself and others … (that is not two)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Living by the Precepts supports and sustains the Practice of Zazen. The Practice of Zazen supports and nurtures Living by the Precepts. In fact, Zazen is living by the Precepts, Living by the Precepts nothing besides Zazen.<\/p>\n

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