The Bhikkhus Rules
A Guide for Laypeople
The Eight Precepts
The Five can then be refined into the Eight Precepts:
"I undertake the training precept:
- to abstain from taking life.
- to abstain from taking what is not given.
- to abstain from unchastity.
- to abstain from false speech.
- to abstain from intoxicants causing heedlessness.
- to abstain from untimely eating.
- to abstain from dancing, singing, music and unseemly shows, from wearing garlands, smartening with scents, and beautifying with perfumes.
- to abstain from the use of high and large luxurious couches."
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