The Long Āgama Sūtra 8.44

8.44

佛言：「彼苦行者，自不殺生，教人不殺，自不偷盜，教人不盜，自不邪婬，教人不婬，自不妄語，教人不妄語；彼以慈心遍滿一方，餘方亦爾，慈心廣大，無二無量，無有結恨，遍滿世間，悲、喜、捨心，亦復如是。彼苦行者，自識往昔無數劫事，一生、二生，至無數生，國土成敗，劫數終始，盡見盡知；又自見知，我曾生彼種姓，如是名字，如是飲食，如是壽命，如是所受苦樂，從彼生此，從此生彼，如是盡憶無數劫事。是為，梵志！彼苦行者牢固無壞。」

The Buddha said, “Those ascetic practitioners don’t themselves kill beings and don’t instruct others to kill. They don’t themselves steal and don’t instruct others to steal. They don’t themselves engage in wrong sex and don’t instruct others to engage in sex. They don’t themselves speak falsely and don’t instruct others to speak falsely.

“They completely fill one direction with kindness and the other directions as well. Their kindness is vast, without duality, measureless, and lacking resentments. They completely fill the world with compassion, joy, and equanimity in the same way.

“Those ascetic practitioners are themselves aware of the events of countless eons in the past, whether it’s one, two … countless births, the formation and destruction of countries, or the numerous eons from beginning to end [of the world]. They fully see and fully know them.

“Furthermore, they themselves know, ‘I once was born in that clan with such a name, had such meals, such a life span, and such pleasant and painful experiences. I was born there from and from there to here.’ They fully remember such events of countless eons. This is the ascetic practice of wanderers that’s essential and undestroyed.”