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You'd probably take it with a pinch of salt that the little Cortez children in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids (inset) could be involved in espionage and so adept, too. Children, nowadays probably could be whatever they want to be, even burglars. In Putrajaya, Malaysia two boys, aged seven and eight, skipped classes and broke into 26 homes in a six-month period, stealing money, shoes, caps, mobile phones among other things. Now, it is not a matter of the kids having broken the second of the Buddhist Five Precepts: Adinnādānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi. I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given. The police had said the two burglar kids were too young to be charged. Come to think of it, when it is the Buddhist Five Precepts for laypeople, can a person be too young to undertake the training rule to abstain from taking life, from taking what is not given, to abstain from sexual misconduct, false speech and intoxicants?
You'd probably take it with a pinch of salt that the little Cortez children in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids (inset) could be involved in espionage and so adept, too. Children, nowadays probably could be whatever they want to be, even burglars. In Putrajaya, Malaysia two boys, aged seven and eight, skipped classes and broke into 26 homes in a six-month period, stealing money, shoes, caps, mobile phones among other things. Now, it is not a matter of the kids having broken the second of the Buddhist Five Precepts: Adinnādānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi. I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given. The police had said the two burglar kids were too young to be charged. Come to think of it, when it is the Buddhist Five Precepts for laypeople, can a person be too young to undertake the training rule to abstain from taking life, from taking what is not given, to abstain from sexual misconduct, false speech and intoxicants?
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