慈悲道場懺法 6.7

6.7

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].