About this episode
The episode discusses the Bodhisattva Precepts Ceremony and the internal conflict created by the grave precepts.
This talk was given the day before a Bodhisattva Precepts Ceremony (Jukai) for five members of the Boulder Zen Center sangha. After describing the ceremony's lineage papers and the intentional family one joins by receiving the precepts, the talk turns to a difficulty. The grave precepts tend to land as a should, like a parental commandment, in what the talk calls the "structure of should," a morally superior part instructing a guilty one. This structure divides us within ourselves and, in the...
People in this episode
Host: Zenki Christian Dillo
Topics covered
- Bodhisattva Precepts
- Zen Buddhism
- spiritual lineage
- moral structure
- self-division
Keywords
- Bodhisattva
- precepts
- Zen
- Boulder Zen Center
- spirituality
- morality
- self
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Boulder Zen Center
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