Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

Living Buddhist Ethics: Questions for Reflection

NORMAN FISCHER

(“Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom,” pg10)

Dogen says, “To study Buddhism is to study the self.” This is true also for practicing sila: we study our mind and our reactions to what we say, do, and think. Can you come closer in to your experience and see more clearly the inner difference between the effects of wholesome and unwholesome activity?

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