| has gloss | eng: Buddhism The Buddha taught that a person seeking his or her well-being will do well to avoid sexual misconduct (this advice constitutes one of the five precepts which the Buddha offered to lay people). In the Pali Suttas Buddha gives examples of what he means by this expression. In a talk he gives to a silversmith, for example, he describes how a person becomes pure by means of avoiding or undertaking certain sorts of bodily actions. In a description of a hypothetical man abstaining from sexual misconduct: |