The Precepts in Brahmajāla Sutta: The precepts for Gorgeous Life

Abstract

For this research, the researcher aimed to describe the precepts in Brahmajāla Sutta: the precept for Gorgeous Life which researcher defined two objectives namely; (1) to study the precepts in Brahmajāla Sutta (2) to study the other suttas which were in Brahmajāla Sutta. The methodology thesis is documentary research and using an analysis by descriptive method.
The result of this research was found that: Brahmajāla Sutta was a sutta of Buddhism that focused on the precepts of meditation, which expressed religious insights profoundly, especially the mention of precepts as the primary practice of good meditation in the Buddha’s period. The precepts were used as arguments for thought and practice. The Buddha presented the precepts in this sutta at the beginning of the Buddhist era, namely, the little precept, the middle precept and the great precept. These were the precepts that the Lord of Buddha accepted how gorgeous and consistently practice along with the Middle Way. Gautama Buddha and his followers observed the precepts which were taboo or interdiction more than allowance. They would observed precepts as follows; (1) the little precepts was the preliminary Buddhist practitioners or monks who just ordained in this religion, (2) the middle precepts for the followers who practiced as the Buddha sermons for a period of time or monks who ordained many years and (3) the high precepts for the practitioners or monks who nearly attained the ultimate Dhamma or nibbana. Therefore, Brahmajāla Sutta was the precepts which was Buddhist conceptual framework at the beginning. After that, the Lord of Buddha prescribed the rule of discipline due to monks’ bad conduct. From this research, I found that the precepts in Brahmajāla Sutta was described various valuable to apply them in personal daily life for those practitioners who are interested in the way as the Buddha recommended to do for gorgeous life.