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Once, a 45-year-old woman found this 30-year-old Indonesian woman, Yati, walking alone in the streets, crying. The latter had been thrown out by her employer who had accused her of seducing her husband. The woman took the Indonesian woman into her home and for months, they lived together with the former's husband under the same roof. One day, the woman saw her husband's motorcycle parked at a flat. She suspected that Malek, her husband, was having an affair with the Indonesian woman and promptly contacted the religious authorities who with the anti-vice officers, raided the flat. The Indonesian woman was booked for not having a valid travel document but officers also found that the Indonesian woman and her husband were legally married. Could this be a case where two of the Buddhist Five Precepts for layman are broken: Adinnādānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given.Kāmesumicchācāra veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi. I undertake the training rule to abstain from sexual misconduct.
Once, a 45-year-old woman found this 30-year-old Indonesian woman, Yati, walking alone in the streets, crying. The latter had been thrown out by her employer who had accused her of seducing her husband. The woman took the Indonesian woman into her home and for months, they lived together with the former's husband under the same roof. One day, the woman saw her husband's motorcycle parked at a flat. She suspected that Malek, her husband, was having an affair with the Indonesian woman and promptly contacted the religious authorities who with the anti-vice officers, raided the flat. The Indonesian woman was booked for not having a valid travel document but officers also found that the Indonesian woman and her husband were legally married. Could this be a case where two of the Buddhist Five Precepts for layman are broken: Adinnādānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given.Kāmesumicchācāra veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi. I undertake the training rule to abstain from sexual misconduct.
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