འཕགས་པ་དགའ་བ་ཅན་གྱ་མད 7

7

halāhala poison.

“If one wishes to enter the higher realms as easily as entering a house,
One must not kill living beings, nor steal the property of others,
Nor tell lies, nor drink alcohol,
Nor seek, even in thought, the spouse of another.⁸²

“These are the precepts of householders
Who wear white clothes and dwell at home.
Beyond this, there is the teaching about the basic precepts,
Taught by the Victorious One for renunciates.”⁸³

The layman Nandika, having heard this teaching in the presence of the Bhagavān, was pleased, delighted, overjoyed, glad, full of happiness and cheerfulness of mind.⁸⁴ He rose from his seat, bowed his head to the Bhagavān’s feet, and circumambulated the Bhagavān three times. Delighted, he rejoiced at what the Bhagavān had said and departed.

When the Bhagavān had spoken thus, the monks rejoiced and praised his words.⁸⁵

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Translated by the Indian preceptor Śākyasiṃha and the translator Bandé Jingyi Nyingpo, and edited and finalized by the chief editor and translator Bandé Devacandra.