The Five Precepts Stated Positively

The Five Precepts Stated Positively

  1. To the best of my ability, I will protect and support life and encourage the fulfillment of potential for love and understanding in others.

  2. To the best of my ability, I will take only what is freely given and vow to practice gratitude and generosity.

  3. To the best of my ability, I will respect and support on-going relationships, honor my commitments, and practice discernment between the beauty of Eros as a feeling and the compulsiveness to act it out.

  4. To the best of my ability, I will say what is true, useful, and timely and practice deep listening such that both my speaking and listening reflects loving-kindness and compassion.

  5. To the best of my ability, I will maintain a clear and alert mind that is aware of its motivations, moment to moment, such that it can discern between what is the cause of suffering and what is not the cause of suffering.

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