Teacher: Rev. Vivian Gruenenfelder
Topic: The Precepts 
Westerners tend to dislike the Precepts, or at best, to consider them not too important. But a case could be made that they are more important and more fundamental than meditation. We will discuss our practice of the Precepts in terms of what it means to literally keep them, to keep them through the practice of compassion, and to keep them from the point of view of "already enlightenment." 
Rev. Vivian looks forward to all of you offering your own experience and observations with this most basic of practices.
List of Precepts:

• Preserve and protect life

• Not taking that which is not given

• Do no harm with sexual energy

• Be truthful and careful with speech

• Restraint with the use of intoxicants

Bio: Rev. Vivian Gruenenfelder has been a Zen Buddhist monk for over twenty years at Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery, a monastery of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, where she received Dharma Transmission from her Master in 2003. She is currently Resident Teacher for Bear River Meditation Group in Applegate, CA. Before becoming a monk she trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, under the direction of Joseph Goldstein.

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