How I see - practicing Không Nói (Do Not Talk = no self inner dialogue) and precepts/morality/Shila (Giới/戒)

We need to know what the precepts are in Buddhism before we can talk about them. These precepts indicate the basic norms of human behaviour to which all people naturally aspire. The five basic precepts in Buddhism are:
1. Abstain from killing
2. Abstain from stealing
3. Abstain from adultery
4. Abstain from lying
5. Abstain from intoxicants

These precepts protect us and help us to lead peaceful and happy lives. Let's say we are committed to lying. When we lie we always have to find a way to cover ourselves. We will make up stories or excuses. Today we make up this story and tomorrow we might forget. We then make up further stories to cover the first story we had. Our mind is like a storm which we brew because we don't want the truth to come out. This will repeatedly appear in our minds until one day the truth comes out and we regret what we have done.

In most of the Buddhist's sects, precepts play a big part in their practice. If we observe these precepts strictly then we will not commit to killing, stealing, adultery, lying and intoxicants. 

People question why Thien Tanh Khong (TTK) does not place importance in precepts. The most traditional way of practice is morality, samadhi/concentration and wisdom. In Nikaya Buddha mentioned "Morality, Samadhi and Wisdom" throughout his teachings in Nikaya. There are two good examples: Subha Sutta (Digha Nikaya 10) and Mahaparinibbana Sutta (Digha Nikaya 16).

As a practitioner of KN, I understand why TTK does not talk much in morality. This can be explained. If we practice KN correctly our minds should be in a state of wordless cognitive awareness. This implies we don't have inner self dialogue.

Now let us talk about each precept while we practice KN:
1) when we want to kill someone, we must have anger, hatred, jealousy or some sort of negative feelings towards the target. Our minds are toying how to commit this action. This means we have inner self dialogue. If we have practice KN then how can we have these negative feelings in our mind let alone form the idea of killing.

2) when we want to steal something, our minds are controlled with thoughts of desire and want. If we practice KN then our minds will not react when we see the object. We should not have the thoughts of want, the thought of owning and the thought of stealing. Thus we will not have the action of stealing. This applies to 3), 4) and 5) precepts.

By practicing KN our mind will become an objective mind when we contact outer and inner phenomenon. We will no longer have a judgemental, subjective and differential mind. In a higher level of practice KN, we will see the truth of nature, the emptiness of nature, the illusory nature and the interconnection of inter-beings. With these understandings of phenomenon, how can we break these precepts? By practicing KN it is morality itself. We cannot separate from morality because we are morality. 

Do you know our true nature is not evil nor good, not dirty nor clean? Therefore the true nature needs no precepts to observe.