The 5 precepts and the duty of a good Buddhist

Abstract

This article aims to study “The 5 precepts and the duty of a good Buddhist”. It shows that the defilement and desire abandoning leading person a good and noble life as a method to achieve the most beneficial goals as the ideal of life, it includes any good and bad actions, right or wrong. By nature, morality aims at guiding a person a good life, helping each other to live together in a society with peace, providing a happy and noble living. Therefore, moral life is a guideline for a good living for Buddhists. Basic morality is the foundation of righteous conducts, known as the five precepts, which are basic Buddhist ethics, it also is a criterion for determining moral values which judge good and evil by relying on actions in 2 ways: Any action that is rooted by Kusala or wholesomeness is a good, useful, and valuable action. Actions that are rooted with unwholesomeness is considered as evil acts. Because Buddhism focuses on self-practice and self-proving, it is known as knower of the rules for goodness judgement in which is correct and true, without allowing anyone to deceive one self.