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**SasV7ReJ** · 06-20-2012, 01:05 PM

No need to go to extremes. Why not focus on your own decisions and be content with that? The precepts are not commandments issued for the purpose of being obeyed. Take what you want from them, but don't try to claim you know best and only your view is the "rational" one.

The Buddha was not ignorant of the types of issues we face today. If he intended to make exceptions, he would have been clear about them. Instead, he focused on the here and now, not on speculations about possibilities.

06-20-2012, 01:05 PM	#19
SasV7ReJ Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 310 Senior Member	No need to go to extremes. Why not focus on your own decisions and be content with that? The precepts are not commandments issued for the purpose of being obeyed. Take what you want from them, but don't try to claim you know best and only your view is the "rational" one. The Buddha was not ignorant of the types of issues we face today. If he intended to make exceptions, he would have been clear about them. Instead, he focused on the here and now, not on speculations about possibilities.
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