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This document is the precepts certificate which shows the promises we make to live mindful, compassionate lives, and to seek the teaching of the most celebrated enlightened one, Siddhartha Gautama, or The Buddha, which means The Enlightened One. It also shows the new name of the devotee--in this case mine; Man Do (the meaning of which you can find below on this page).
As "Buddhists,'' we may also wish to incorporate other interpretations of monks and nuns and other wise and enlightened human beings who lived lives of meditation, contemplation, and upright morality, such as our own teachers at Han Maum Seon Won or One Heart/One Mind Zen Center, whose founder, the Venerable nun called Dae Heng Kunsunim, teaches that all the answers to all the questions we have in life can be found in the inherent Buddha nature naturally manifested in us and connected to all things and all beings. If you think about this, it does not conflict with science, and to me, that is one of the greatest appeals of Buddhism.
Dae Heng Kun Sunim calls this inherent nature of ours the Juin Gong, or the Main Actor/Real Doer Of All Things. I interpret the Juingong to be who we are naturally, subconsciously; the genius humanity we are, which manifests itself in our uncorrupted selves, through likes, dislikes, love, and creativity, and its interrelatedness to all others and all things in the universe.
Of course, Buddhist teachings encourage--especially in Zen philosophy--that we must refrain from being steeped in desire and making too many distinctions between likes and dislikes, for this is a paradigm of thinking that causes our suffering and creates too great a distinction between good and bad, and not enough of the state of mind that sees the cause and effect of everything.
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