Three Treasures, Four Noble Truths, Five Precepts, Eightfold Path. That’s a lot of numbers that add up to a lot of reading. We Zenish don’t much like reading none, least not when The Price is Right is on. Heck, there’s only Ten Commandments, and those are all one-liners. I think. Anyway, a one-liner sounds good. Brevity is the soul of Zenishness. So, let’s sum all that noble precept stuff up in to one Big Helpful Hint On How to Live:

Don’t be a dickhead.

Four simple words (five if you’re anti-contraction) that should get you through life relatively smoothly.