#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  The original intent of the precepts is for our own protection. So, precepts you could think of precepts as your armor. When you observe precepts, it's like you're wearing an armor. So, you're a lot safer. You have this body armor that keeps you safer, makes you impervious to the afflictions and the sufferings of of the world. And you don't make mistakes. Another way of thinking of precepts is like they are boundary lines. And that's why it's important to know about precepts, Buddhist precepts.your own. So, these these precepts, the Buddhist precepts, are designed to dispel out the boundaries that if you stay within the boundaries, you're safe. When you cross the boundaries, that's when you get in big trouble that you are not likely able to recover on