Whenever two or more people get together, there are certain etiquette rules that come with the territory.
The Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, set strict rules to prevent possible conflicts between people in advance, but he also said that following them is for the benefit of everyone, and that it helps each person’s own practice.

I would say that manners are a basic skill for all of us, even in different cultures, but sometimes we get biased by our own thoughts and feelings and lose our balance.

Anyone who listens to Dharma talks to identify their true self will realize that their body, their thoughts, emotions, and feelings are not their true self, they are just a breeze that is perceived moment to moment through the true self.

Please be considerate of everyone at all times, be polite to the Zen Master, and refrain from expressing personal questions and thoughts that come to mind while listening to the Dharma talk.

The biggest obstacle to enlightenment is ‘thoughts’ and the Dharma talk by the Zen Master is to stop them and see the truth.

One of the traditional Zen practices is called ‘Hashim and Silence’ in Korean.

First, “Hashim” means “to lower the mind”.
It’s about humbly placing your mind, or yourself, in a low place so that you can hear everything in the world, and it’s a basic Buddhist practice of bowing (Bao).

Bao is not something we do to avoid being disadvantaged in our everyday, class-divided society, but rather a way of showing respect to a teacher by respectfully placing the bottoms of our hands together in front of our chests and lowering our head, the highest part of our body, to the ground in order to ask for instruction from a teacher because we are insufficient in our own search for truth.

There are also two types of bows: half-bao, where you stand with your hands together and only bow your head and waist down, and full-bao, where you prostrate yourself on the floor with your hands on the ground.

Another word is “silence,” which means “to stop talking.
Since words come from thoughts, and the essence of dharma talk is to stop those thoughts (views) so that we can encounter the one truth, it is important to refrain from speaking, thinking, and opinions during dharma talk and listen to the teacher for at least six months.

In traditional Buddhism, there are practitioners who practice “silence” and live without speaking for months or even years, but this is a misunderstanding of the nature of the practice.
As I mentioned in the beginning, the goal is not just to stop talking, but to stop the thoughts that control you, because the root of words are thoughts.

The most important thing is to find your true self, and manners are a great help in finding it.

In the end, the precepts you need to follow are all in your mind, and on the day that moment happens, when all thoughts stop, you will see for yourself that it was all in your mind.