Cubibobi asked: “For numbers 7 and 8 regarding Mother and Father, would it be correct to expand them to include nurturers?”
Of course, that would be a meritorious deed.
However, we should never try to alter any set of “rules” or “guidelines” set up by the Buddha. There are many things in this world that we are not aware of, but a Buddha is.
– The Bhikkhus who faithfully transmitted the Tipitaka over the past 2500 years (and especially in the first few hundred years where it was transmitted orally) took great care to NOT TO change anything at all.
– That is why we can have faith that the Tipitaka contains the original teachings of the Buddha. Of course, that material is self-consistent too.