How do you like your precepts?
Its Buddha time.
I undertake the precept to refrain from taking the life of living beings.
Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
如諸佛盡壽不殺生,我某甲亦盡壽不殺生.
I undertake the precept to refrain from stealing.
Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
如諸佛盡壽不偷盜,我某甲亦盡壽不偷盜.
I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual misconduct.
Kamesu micchacara veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
如諸佛盡壽不淫欲,我某甲亦盡壽不邪淫.
I undertake the precept to refrain from false speech.
Musavada veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
如諸佛盡壽不妄語;我某甲亦盡壽不妄語.
I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicants which lead to heedlessness.
Sura meraya majja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
如諸佛盡壽不飲酒,我某甲亦盡壽不飲酒.
@ 2007 Alexander Nikolas Gruber