“Diligently cultivating precepts means putting a stop to evil and avoiding wrongdoing. It is also doing no evil but offering up all good. It means when you recognize your true and actual goal, you should go forward and make courageous progress with vigor, and not change your initial resolution. It also means that you should be firm, sincere, and constant. Your resolve should be solid and firm, it should be sincere, and it should be long-lasting. Constantly and forever one should do no evil and should offer up all good conduct.

When you cultivate precepts, you certainly must have patience. That is, you must endure what you cannot endure. In that way the precepts will spontaneously be pure. When the substance of the precepts is pure, then you will be able to give rise to samadhi-power. Samadhi-power means not being moved by outer circumstances. What is meant by wisdom? People with wisdom don’t do foolish or upside-down things. They don’t do ignorant and afflicted things. That’s wisdom.

“If you can diligently cultivate precepts, samadhi, and wisdom, and in turn, put to rest greed, anger, and delusion, then in everything you say and do, you won’t calculate for yourself. You should consider the entire world and all of humanity as your responsibility and be concerned about them. Don’t be concerned about yourself, and then you won’t have any greed. If you make all of humanity your personal responsibility, and set out to benefit each and every person, then you are practicing the Bodhisattva Path. If further you can have no delusion and afflictions, then your anger will be put to rest. Delusion means not recognizing truth and instead doing all kinds of deluded things. If you have no more of all that, then you have put to rest greed, anger, and delusion.…” (TT 117)

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