I think it is incredibly difficult to try and explain neurosurgery and a doctor's life's work to an ordinary lay person and expect them to understand and be able to have two doctors giving two extremely different interpretations of the same piece of evidence and to expect a lay person to chose between the two I think is impossible ."
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In point of fact, the most difficult precept of all for nearly everybody to live up to is the fourth to refrain from all forms of wrong speech ( which often includes uncharitable comments on other people's real or alleged sexual failings ! ) . . . What precisely, then, does the Third Precept imply for the ordinary lay Buddhist?
