It is Wajo who gives the precepts; after he does his self-ordination toward Binzuru-sonja in Jiki-do Hall, he reads Hassai-kai, eight precepts (murder, steal, contact with women and so on), which should be observed to all the Rengyoshu one by one, and asks "Do you observe them well or not?"
戒を授けるのは和上で、和上は食堂の賓頭盧尊者（びんずるそんじゃ）に向かって自誓自戒した後、練行衆全員に守るべき八斎戒（殺生、盗み、女性に接することなど）を一条ずつ読み聞かせて「よく保つや否や」と問いかける。