An Impeccable Mind

These precepts point to a sense of impeccability as the standard of the spiritual life.

The ethical teachings encourage us to understand the laws of the land and to support those laws, because if we don’t, who will? This is our commitment to community.

It is not just taking the easy way out or just going with the popular mood of the day: ‘Well, everyone else is taking things off the back of the lorry, why not? The office has lots of stationery.’

A mind which follows dishonesty becomes a mind which is afflicted by guilt, fear or arrogance. It is not an impeccable mind, not a mind that is going to experience the beauty of a peaceful heart.

This reflection by Ajahn Vīradhammo is from the book, Seeing the Way, Volume 2, (pdf) pp. 169-170.