འཕགས་པ་དགའ་བ་ཅན་གྱ་མད 2

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He bowed his head to the Bhagavān’s feet, circumambulated the Bhagavān three times, and sat down to one side.³⁰ Then, those five hundred lay practitioners also bowed their heads³¹ to the Bhagavān’s feet and sat down to one side.³² Then the layman Nandika asked the Bhagavān, “What sort of ripening will arise for those who violate the five basic precepts of a lay practitioner as prescribed by the bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly awakened Buddha who knows and sees?”

The Bhagavān answered the layman Nandika, “Nandika, it is excellent that you have thought to ask the Tathāgata about this matter. Your intellect is vast, your consideration is fine, and your eloquence is excellent.³³ Therefore, Nandika, I shall teach the Dharma discourse called The Ten Negative Consequences. Listen well and duly and take it to heart! I shall explain it to you.”³⁴

“Excellent, Bhagavān,” said the layman Nandika, and he listened to the Bhagavān.

The Bhagavān said, “Nandika, these ten negative consequences of killing should be known. What are the ten? They are as follows: (1) in this life one will beget hostility and also in other lives one will continue to experience hostility; (2) one will not be trusted by many beings;³⁵ (3) one will have nightmares; (4) one will experience fear and others will be fearful of you;³⁶ (5) even after going to sleep comfortably, one will wake up in distress;³⁷ (6) one will think of evil things; (7) one will be confused at the time of death;³⁸ (8) since one will commit and accumulate deeds leading to a short life, (9) after the dissolution of the body and death, one will fall into the lower realms, the bad destinations, and be reborn in the hells;³⁹ (10) even if, after dying and transmigrating from there, one is born in this world as a human, no matter where one is born, one will have a short life and also many illnesses.