Are the Eight Precepts Very Important?
八关斋戒是否很重要？
The Medicine Master Sutra mentions about the benefits of learning and practicing the eight precepts.
药师经指示受持八关斋戒的利益。
The eight precepts are not just fasting. To get rid of impure thoughts, habits and bad influences from the outside are the main objectives. Everyone is Buddha.
八关斋戒不是断除食物而已，重要的是断除一些不好的思想、不好的习惯、不好的外在影响。
Some devout Buddhists will wear a simple white dress and spend the whole day in temples with renewed determination to observe the observance of the Eight Precepts.
一些虔诚的佛教徒会穿上朴素的白衣服，花了一整天在庙宇里，重新下定决定遵守八正道。
There is another point to consider. The five precepts are not as numerous as the eight precepts and as they are to be kept everyday no special day was named for their observance.
在此有另一点值得思考的：五戒在数目上比八戒来得少，而且它是人们每天受持的，因此并没有特别受持的日子；
But you can take Bodhisattva precepts, the ten major and forty-eight minor precepts.
在家人不能受十戒，十戒是沙弥戒，可以受菩萨戒，十重四十八轻戒。
But you can take Bodhisattva precepts, the ten major and forty-eight minor precepts.
在家人不能受十戒，十戒是沙弥戒，可以受菩萨戒，十重四十八轻戒。
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