Is it possible to practice Buddhism and practice Zen without observing the precepts?

It is said that if you have Zen in your heart, you don’t need to keep the precepts. Or that killing is to save lives. When the speaker goes to kill other living beings, he can easily say: "There is a Buddha in my heart, and I understand the true meaning of Zen, so I can kill." But if someone else kills him, how can such a crazy Zen person easily say: "There is a Buddha in my heart, and I understand the true meaning of Zen." Zen mind, so come and kill me." Is there really such a crazy Zen person? If he can really do this, then for him, it is indeed "life and death are Nirvana", "greed, anger and ignorance are precepts and concentration" "Hui", he can use Buddhism and precepts very smoothly, but if he still has the slightest fear or resentment in his heart when facing others to kill him, then his so-called Zen is false Zen. Such "Zen" usually It's okay to talk about it, but it doesn't help at all with your own life and death, or with the emergence of your own compassion and bodhicitta. All the Dharma taught by the Buddha, including Zen of course, are all for us suffering sentient beings to escape from the sea of ??suffering in reincarnation and be able to arise. Bodhicitta is here to save all sentient beings. Is it possible that the Buddha's mind - "Zen" - taught by the Buddha and the Zen ancestors of all generations is just for us to talk about it verbally for a while? It is of no use.

The role of Zen For so many years in China, only one Sixth Patriarch, Master Huineng, has emerged. Do you crazy Zen followers think that you can surpass the Sixth Patriarch’s ability? Do you think that the Sixth Patriarch became enlightened after he wrote that famous verse? ?It was the Fifth Patriarch who taught the Diamond Sutra to the Sixth Patriarch and said, "There should be no place to live, and the mind should be born." The Sixth Patriarch had a great enlightenment. Moreover, when the Sixth Patriarch lived in seclusion among hunters for fifteen years, he did not eat meat, but only "meat-based side dishes." Unlike the so-called Zen masters today, who eat the flesh and blood of living beings every day, Is this the true meaning of Tathagata’s true meaning when he speaks mantras and uses “tact”? (I personally was like this when I first started learning Buddhism. I thought I understood Zen very well. But now that I think about it, even the slightest bit of Zen means nothing at all. I can’t even dream about it. I also regret my madness at that time and some of the so-called Zen words I said out of ignorance. Namo Amitabha. He said: "The Dharma should be given up, let alone illegal." But when can we give up the Dharma? The Buddha's Dharma is like a big boat, which helps us survive the sea of ??suffering in the cycle of life and death. If you have already crossed the river, if you are still carrying the boat on your back, Then you are indeed very ignorant, but if you are still in the river and only see people who have crossed the river throw away the boat, and don’t think about yourself as a person in the river now, you will just follow suit and throw away the boat. Then aren't you going to drown? I'm afraid there are no such unintelligent people, so why should we learn to abandon the precepts casually? If we talk about learning to let go of all attachments, then why not learn from letting go of our attachment to the five desires and six objects? Instead of learning from letting go of our inner greed, anger, and delusion, why should we start by letting go of the precepts?

We should do what we do and say what we say when we are an ordinary person. You must observe the precepts and practice conscientiously, only in this way can you get the real benefits of Buddhism. You only learn a few "mantras", which are just talking about eating and counting treasures, which will not be of any benefit to you. On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, the King of Hell, Laozi When collecting debts, you will just be in a hurry and don’t know where you are going.

As for the senior poster who asked the question, the lecture you watched, even if the professor’s topic was "What is true?" "Zen", but how do you know that he really understands "Zen"? These scholars or professors themselves do not believe in Buddhism. They just study Buddhism as a doctrine or a philosophy, just like a person who does not believe in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine at all. , he comes to talk about traditional Chinese medicine, do you think he will understand the profound principles behind traditional Chinese medicine? Therefore, if you are interested in Zen, it is best not to read books written by these so-called scholars. They are all "talking about Zen outside of Zen". Like a blind man touching an elephant, he thinks that what he understands is all Zen, but how could he know that he is missing the smallest detail?

Put your hands together and wish you good luck, Amitabha.