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The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment)

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I read this book prior to taking the buddhist precepts and was deeply moved by John Daido Loori's understanding and commitment to the precepts. These issues, morals and ethics are issues that will not go away as the world tries to justify itself. This book will not judge but will open the realm of the buddhist precepts before you.

Well written and informative! Excellent for Zen student preparing for their "Jukai" vows and cermony.

Well now I know more about Buddhism than I did. And I think there are some answers there. But the basis of the whole religion is that there is absolutely no self. No separate entity known as "me". It is a way of coming at the belief that we are all one in some deep core way, which I truly believe, but just because we are all one, and my fellow human beings are as I am, does not seem to me to point to a negation of each individual. Somewhat akin to the Borgs on "Star Trek". They are all united as one body and function as one. And the power they possess in that form is darn near unbeatable. But they do not know emotion. Christianity points this way too, really, but I think Buddhism says it clearer. "Beneath the heavens and the earth, there is only I." I love that statement. The connectedness of all existence.