THE TEN GREAT PRECEPTS
In “Bright Clarity” Rev. Clairissa explores how our practice of Serene Reflection Meditation and living from the heart of the Buddhist Precepts are intertwined, and inherently known to all beings. She begins by reading some verses from an early Chan (Zen) Dharma poem, the Mòzhào míng, the teaching of 12th century Chan Master Hongzhi Zhengjue 宏智正覺 (Japanese: Wanshi Shōgaku), translated into English from the Chinese by Rev. Master Hakuun Barnhard.
For a printable page, “The Buddhist Precepts,” listing the Sixteen Precepts of our Sōtō Zen tradition (in the form of the Three Refuges, The Three Pure Precepts, and the Ten Great Precepts), go to this link:
https://wallowabuddhisttemple.org/pdfviewer/the-16-buddhist-precepts/
For Rev. Master Hakuun’s translation of Hongzhi’s Mòzhào míng, containing the verses read at the start of the talk: