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Purpose of reciting precepts
shanyin
Novice YoginSault Ontario Veteran
Why are the precepts recited by Buddhist practitioners? To focus the mind? To help keep the aspiration to follow the precepts?
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- Kinetic (body)
- Visual
- Auditory
Reciting the precepts, chanting, etc, reinforces that pattern of thinking, strengthens it, and helps imprint it in our brain, via the auditory mode of learning.
Kinetic practices, such as prostrations, mudras, etc. also sink the message in.
And visualization completes the learning.
You learn more fully when you perform all three modalities of learning. And the definition of learning is "a change in behavior. If there is no change in behavior, then no learning has occurred". And for sure, Buddhism is all about changing behavior (both inner and outer).