The five precepts (Sanskrit: pañcaśīla; Pali: pañcasīla) or five rules of training (Sanskrit: pañcaśikṣapada; Pali: pañcasikkhapada) is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people....

The wholesome:Abstention from killing living beings; abstention from taking what is not given; abstention from misconduct in sensual pleasures; abstention from false speech; abstention from malicious speech; abstention from harsh speech; abstention from gossip; uncovetousness; non-ill will; right view, that is called the wholesome......

Even though we do not completely master Karma - because the cause has been sown - we also do not absolutely have to give up and be a slave. Even the most vile and despicable person can still strive to become morally pure. We are always changing and always becoming something new, and that new thing depends on ourselves, on our own actions....

In the Four Noble Truths, suffering is birth, aging, illness, death, union with what is displeasing, separation from what is pleasing, not getting what one wants; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering, and the Buddha also taught that the way to end suffering is to practice the Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration...

The Buddha taught in the Dhammacakkappavattanasutta(Saṁyutta Nikāya) as follows:"And what, bhikkhus,...

One makes an effort to abandon wrong view and to enter upon right view: this is one’s right effort. One makes an effort to abandon wrong intention and to enter upon right intention: this is one’s right effort. One makes an effort to abandon wrong speech and to enter upon right speech: this is one’s right effort. One makes an effort to abandon wrong action and to enter upon right action: this is one’s right effort. One makes an effort to abandon wrong livelihood and to enter upon right livelihood: this is one’s right effort...

And what, bhikkhus, is wrong livelihood? Scheming, talking, hinting, belittling, pursuing gain with gain: this is wrong livelihood, ...Here, bhikkhus, a noble disciple abandons wrong livelihood and gains his living by right livelihood: this is right livelihood that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions...

Abstinence from killing living beings, abstinence from taking what is not given, abstinence from misconduct in sensual pleasures: this is right action that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions...

And what, bhikkhus, is right speech that is affected by taints, partaking of merit, ripening in the acquisitions? Abstinence from false speech, abstinence from malicious speech, abstinence from harsh speech, abstinence from gossip: this is right speech that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions....

The intention of renunciation, the intention of non-ill will, and the intention of non-cruelty: this is right intention that is affected by taints…ripening in the acquisitions, The thinking, thought, intention, mental absorption, mental fixity, directing of mind, verbal formation in one whose mind is noble, whose mind is taintless, who possesses the noble path and is developing the noble path...