A barking dog, the blowing wind, and green trees are better teachers than me, better than Buddha, better than everything. Nature already has its own rules; nobody made that. In nature, everything follows these natural rules and gets harmony. But human beings are not like that. Everybody is complete asleep, all the time, and because they don’t follow the world’s original rules, they make suffering for themselves and others. Human beings don’t realize that the sky is blue and the tree is green. Because they only follow their desire, anger, and ignorance, and take their thinking minds as their treasure, they don’t see that this world — just as it is — is always teaching us truth. Everyone has too strong opinions, too much understanding, and too much checking of their feelings, everybody likes to be stolen by their six robbers.
So this is why rules and precepts appear. If from moment to moment you keep correct situation, then the Buddha’s precepts