ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents monastic conditions for becoming a monk/nun, in which the author considers the ten serious evils and the eight precepts together. He also presents Dogen's stance on karmic cause and effect. The author focuses on the first injunction of the teaching, do no evil, by addressing his characterization of evil in order to show how he changes its meaning, effected by what the author calls practical transcendence, to non-production of evil. He traces the process of this transformation by analyzing the experiential correlate that transforms the everyday perspective to a de-homocentric perspective that is defined by the idea of micro-macrocosmic correlativity. The author describes how this non-dualistic perspective operates in the context of dependent origination in terms of its karmic causality, and how this perspective opens up a domain of experience in which there is self-illumination and mutual-illumination among thing-events that enter the context of dependent origination.
