Kigaku Noah Roen: Contours of the Awakened Mind

Hoshi Kigaku Noah Roen continues Upaya’s series on the precepts with a talk on the Three Pure Precepts: doing no harm; doing good; doing good for others. In dialogue with the texts of Bernie Glassman, Reb Anderson, and Shohaku Okumura, Kigaku suggests that rather than looking at these precepts as means to enlightenment, we see them as descriptions of the enlightened mind itself. When we live the Pure Precepts, we are practicing our already-awakened state.