UPHOLDING THE PRECEPTS
Master Jun Hong Lu: Think about it: How many wrongdoings have you committed in the past? When it comes to observing the five precepts, you need to have self-awareness and willingness to change for the better.
When you take what belongs to others, Bodhisattvas in heaven can see and even the demons from the underworld will come after you. Why do you want to take things that don’t belong to you? It is because you are greedy and discontented.
I have said before, if you take the hotel toiletries that you did not finish using, you are still considered greedy, even if you are a guest in a hotel. Do not think, just because you paid for the hotel room, it is normal for you to do so. Although this is not against the law and you cannot be considered to have broken the precepts, it is surely a sign that you have greed within you.
Taking what is not yours, do you think this is how a Buddhist practitioner should behave? Think about it. Who among you has never broken at least one of the five precepts? Have you never boasted before? Have you not stolen or killed? Hating someone to the point that you so wished to destroy him is also regarded as an act of killing.
What’s more? There are taking of intoxicants, committing sexual misconduct and lying. You need to understand this, and you must then plead acceptance. What does that mean? You need to plead to Bodhisattva, “Bodhisattva, I must turn over a new leaf; I must make sure that I observe the five precepts!”
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Volume 8 Chapter 9