No amount of alcohol is good for you

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Re: No amount of alcohol is good for you

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MrKoala wrote: Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:40 am Hello all,

As i am new to buddhism, could anyone please recommend any sutta or commentary that assists with keeping the fifth precept.

Kind Regards,
Mk
primarily Sigalovada Sutta
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .nara.html
it is all kinds of helpful
there are also these excerpts;
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
"Furthermore, abandoning the use of intoxicants, the disciple of the noble ones abstains from taking intoxicants. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. In giving freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings, he gains a share in limitless freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, and freedom from oppression. This is the fifth gift, the fifth great gift — original, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unadulterated, unadulterated from the beginning — that is not open to suspicion, will never be open to suspicion, and is unfaulted by knowledgeable contemplatives & brahmans. And this is the eighth reward of merit, reward of skillfulness, nourishment of happiness, celestial, resulting in happiness, leading to heaven, leading to what is desirable, pleasurable, & appealing; to welfare & to happiness.
"The drinking of fermented & distilled liquors — when indulged in, developed, & pursued — is something that leads to hell, leads to rebirth as a common animal, leads to the realm of the hungry shades. The slightest of all the results coming from drinking fermented & distilled liquors is that, when one becomes a human being, it leads to mental derangement."
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
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