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Ahoy, fellow Interweb sailors and surfers. How be ye? On this side of the ship I be good, yarr.

So today I learned that some Buddhist traditions treat the new and full moons as holy days and partake in confession if they have broken one of the five precepts. Just for kicks I'll list the precepts here:

• Not to take the life of or harm anything that breathes


• Not to take things not intended for you


• Not to engage in harmful/false speech


• Not to overindulge in sensual pleasure


• Not to take intoxicants

I made a pic one day (I'm quite proud of it) to depict these:



Some of you may be thinking, "That's a lot of don'ts!" But really you can look at them the other way too. DO respect life. DO speak kindly. DO respect others.

So anyway, on the full and new moon they confess if they've done anything against these five trainings. Oop, I guess I'm not done talking about them yet. They are "trainings" not commandments. They confess so that they have more motivation to stay on the path in the future. Its easy to not feel bad about something you did if its hidden.

So back to the point of this post. Every full moon and new moon I'll make a confession post about my breakings of the precepts, which by the way, I do try to keep. Sound like fun? Well it should be! You can know what a baaaaaad man I am.

I missed one already, so I'll make it up in a sec in its own post.

- BuddhaDave