Precepts, Self Off-Balance

Well, the digital recorder lost the last few minutes of the audio; but there is 30 minutes of the class online.

When the mind and body are disturbed what do you do? When you experience being off-balance, what do you do?

Be sure to read the previous post....

Consider the alternative of suffering with only me, exclusively me, fixed and frozen, superficial & heartless,fortifying habits, continuously dualistic and feeling incomplete, narrow and constricted, given up and hardened...

Add your own...when we spend days that are soaked by misery they are days of the Singular Precept of ME, MY & MINE...wait, though, don't destroy that, don't bring up hate to eradicate this precept, take your seat and sit with your self right there in the middle of it...and breathe in compassion.

Please read before listening Pure Precepts 1.Thanks

Most religions have clear ideas of right and wrong. Christianity, for example believes in the existence of two moral areas; a world of right (heaven) and a world of wrong (hell). Although people from Christian cultures may not believe in the actual existence of two worlds any more, as they did in the Middle Ages, they still believe clearly that there are two kinds of actions; good actions and bad actions.
Religions usually lay down moral criteria to guide believers into good and away from bad. That is, people believe that actions can be pre-judged as being good or bad. And they believe that we can clearly delineate the two. Christianity has the 10 commandments as the basis for good and bad action, but in practice, Christian societies have developed idealized ethical systems and guidelines to teach people what is right and what is wrong. It is not an exaggeration to say that one of the aims of Christianity is to eliminate bad from the earth and to leave only good. However, from a Buddhist point of view this would seem to be a fruitless exercise. Buddhists believe that reality or Dharma is beyond concepts of good and bad; that is, it contains both good and bad un-separated, in a pre-conceptual state. To try to remove half of reality would seem to be by definition unachievable. More than that, the conscious effort to try to remove half of reality is also a kind of affirmation of the existence of just that part that you are intending to remove. 1997 eido michael luetchford