大般涅槃經集解 11.49

11.49

Zhixiu comments: If a person has no intention to harm beasts, beasts will not harm the person either; this is how one can probe a bone from a tiger in the mountains, or be familiar with gulls hovering over the sea. If one already eats their flesh, how could the intention to harm ever be extinguished? When they smell the killer's aura, they give rise to the thought of fearing death.