What are
the 8
Training Rules (Precepts), which brings Divinity?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight
features brings high
reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity and greatness! And which are
these 8
features? In this, any
Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life
the Arahats avoid lying & refrain from any
falsehood. They speak only
the factual &
actual truth, they are very devoted to valid accuracy,
reliable, all honest, worthy of
trust & confidence, and never neither deceiving, nor pretending! May I also, this day
& night,
avoid all lying & refrain from any fake falsehood...
By that I will follow the
track & traits of these perfected Arahats!
I shall then have observed the Uposatha
observance day perfectly.
With this fourth praxis is the observance day enriched.
Observed
in
this very way, brings the observance day endowed with eight features
high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity
and immense greatness...
Honest Facts:
There
are those, who break the holy vows,
who speak false, deceive & pretend,
who thus cannot hope for a good future,
There is no evil such ones cannot do ... !
Dhammapada
176
Those
who falsely declare: "That indeed happened",
about what did not happen or: "I did not do that",
about what they actually did, earn themselves
a hot ticket to a screaming future in Hell...
Dhammapada
306
One can only convince the liar with truth....
Dhammapada
223
If one
speaks truth
only, one wins a divine future!
Dhammapada
224
Behaviour that counts as ways of lying:
Any
falsehood, dishonesty, misrepresentation, fabrication, faking, evasion,
pretending,
deceiving, simulation, impersonation, misleading, mimicry, sham, double-dealing,
imposting,
imitation, cheating,
fraud, swindling, trickery, forgery, fiction, perjury, untruthfulness, &
any bending, colouring, cover up, concealing, disguising, hiding or obscuration
of the facts!
More on Neither
Lying, nor Deceiving, nor Pretending:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/samma-vaca.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Truth_Triumphs.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Deceiving.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Speech.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Fourfold_Right_Speech.htm
Audio: Moral Purity is Prime
Podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/essential-is-virtue-sila
Truth always Triumphs! from
Bhikkhu Samahita on
Vimeo.
More on this Optimal Buddhist Uposatha Day Observance:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/ptf/dhamma/sila/atthasila.html
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/ptf/dhamma/sila/uposatha.html
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.
Anguttara Nikāya AN 8:44
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
