There are three integral factors in Buddhist meditation - morality, concentration, wisdom. These three factors grow together as your practice deepens. Each one influences the other, so you cultivate the three of them at
once, not separately. When you have the wisdom to truly understand a situation, compassion toward all parties involved is automatic, and compassion means that you automatically restrain yourself from any thought, word, or deed that might harm yourself and others; thus your behavior is automatically moral. It is only when you don't understand things deeply that you create problems. If you fail to see the consquences of your actions, you will blunder. The person who waits to become totally moral before he begins to meditate is waiting for a situation that will never arise. The ancient sages say this person is like a man waiting for the ocean to become calm so that he can take a bath.
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