"We say that there is the non-practice of the precepts. Oh good man! This is nothing more than not being able to regard sila [precepts of morality] as a kind of ladder for all good dharmas. Sila is the root of all good dharmas. This is like the land, which is where all the trees grow. This is the best guide to everything that is good. It's like the owner of a ship that guides all the merchants. Sila is the banner of victory. It's like the hanging ensign of Devendra. Sila eternally extirpates all evil deeds and the three unfortunate realms. It thoroughly cures serious illnesses, such as a medicinal tree. Sila is nothing more than the food on the steep path of birth and death. It is the armor and sword that crush the thieves of defilements; and it is the best spell, which annihilates the poison of the vipers of defilements, or it is the bridge through which one can truly cross over the path of evil deeds. Any person who cannot think that way, is someone who does not practice the precepts. "
Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 38 - On Bodhisattva Lion's Roar 6.
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