慈悲道場懺法 6.7

6.7

今日道場同業大眾！相與已得懺悔身罪。身業雖淨，所餘口過復是一切怨禍之門。故諸佛誡，不得兩舌、惡口、妄言、綺語。當知諂曲華辭、搆扇是非故，言之為患招報實重。夫人處世心懷毒念、口施毒言、身行毒業，以此三事加害眾生。眾生被毒即結怨恨，誓心欲報，或現世獲願、或終後從心。如是怨結備居六道，更相報復無有窮盡，皆由宿命非空所得。當知身口實眾惡之源。處俗者恣之不孝，死入泰山便有湯火之酷。出家者不樂佛法，所生之處常與惡會。如此惡對皆資三業。三業之中口業實重，乃至獲報備諸楚毒，難曉之夜不覺不知。

Today, assembly sharing this karmic endeavor in the bodhimaṇḍa! Together we have succeeded in repenting physical sins. Although physical karma is purified, the remaining faults of speech are also the gate to all grievances and calamities. Therefore all buddhas admonish us not to engage in double-tongued speech, harsh speech, false speech, or frivolous speech. You should know that flattery, flowery phrases, and stirring up right and wrong cause speech to become a calamity, incurring retributions that are truly severe. When people live in the world, their minds harbor poisonous thoughts, their mouths utter poisonous words, and their bodies perform poisonous deeds, inflicting harm upon sentient beings through these three things. When sentient beings suffer poison, they form enmity and hatred, making a vow in their hearts to take revenge, either obtaining their wish in the present life or fulfilling their desire after death. Resentful knots such as these dwell extensively throughout the six destinies, retaliating against one another without end, all arising from past lives and not obtained out of nowhere. You should know that the body and speech are truly the source of all evils. Those who dwell in secular life give free rein to them, being unfilial; upon death they enter Mount Tai, where they instantly suffer the cruelty of boiling water and fire. Those who have left home take no delight in the Buddha-Dharma; wherever they are born, they constantly encounter evil. Such evil confrontations are all fed by the three karmas. Among the three karmas, karmic speech is truly heavy, even incurring retributions of all kinds of severe suffering, unconscious and unaware in the long night [of saṃsāra].