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The Five Precepts

The training rules every lay practitioner undertakes.

NarratorAjahn PasannoDuration10:15
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The precepts are not commandments. They are commitments — taken voluntarily, renewed daily. To refrain from killing, from taking what is not given, from sexual misconduct, from false speech, from intoxication that clouds the mind.

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