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Bodhisattva Precept Class: On Sexuality & Intoxication

  • Mar 1, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 12, 2025

Senior students Josu and Seiryu unfold the precepts on “not misusing sexuality” and “not becoming intoxicated.” The affirmative vow for the latter is “polish clarity, dispel delusion.” Keeping these precepts involves looking more deeply into how we create objects of desire in the world and lose our presence of mind through intoxicants of all kinds.




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