[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋門自鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083) › 2.29.4 # 釋門自鏡錄 2.29.4 釋門自鏡錄 2.29.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.29.4) 墜墮地獄。 疾於鑽矛。 凡出家人實宜深思。 又勅捨云。 聲聞受律儀戒。 本制身口七支。 一受已後乃至睡眠悶等。 律儀恒生念念得未曾得律儀。 所以爾者。 睡眠等非起惡心。 故不損不失乃至常生。 若起欲殺心。 於聲聞法。 雖不失身口戒。 而於戒有損。 非唯損不殺戒。 亦兼污餘戒。 至於手挾齒齧動身口業。 則失身口戒。 爾時律儀無作即斷不續。 既失不殺戒亦污餘戒。 所以爾者。 旃陀羅人為屠肉時為何等人殺。 正為食肉者。 若食肉者即有殺分。 於不殺戒即成有缺。 若謂於善律儀受殺生分。 於不殺戒無有缺者。 是為不善律儀人持八戒齋。 是惡律儀猶應相續。 若惡律儀人持八戒齋。 惡律儀不復相續者。 是知善律儀人受諸殺分。 是不殺戒即時便缺。 別解脫戒不復解脫。 惡律儀人無論持八戒齋。 但起一念善心。 惡律儀即斷。 若一念不斷。 多念亦應不斷。 若多念斷是知一念時斷。 善律儀人其事亦爾無論受諸殺分。 有少殺分不殺律儀即時亦斷。 菩薩人持心戒故知。 無有食眾生理。 若缺聲聞戒。 終不免地獄等苦。 > "They will plummet into hell faster than a piercing spear. Truly, all renunciants ought to reflect deeply on this." He also commanded She, saying: "When a śrāvaka receives the discipline precepts, they originally regulate the seven actions of body and speech. Once received, even during sleep, fainting, and so forth, the discipline constantly arises, and from thought-moment to thought-moment one attains unprecedented discipline. Why is this? Sleep and the like do not give rise to evil thoughts; therefore the precepts are not damaged or lost, and indeed constantly arise. If one gives rise to a thought of wishing to kill, under the śrāvaka Dharma, although one does not lose the precepts of body and speech, there is damage to the precepts. It does not merely damage the precept against killing, but also defiles the other precepts. When it comes to clasping with the hands or biting with the teeth, activating the karma of body and speech, one loses the precepts of body and speech. At that time, the unmanifest discipline is immediately severed and does not continue. Having lost the precept against killing, one also defiles the remaining precepts. Why is this? When a caṇḍāla slaughters meat, for what kind of people does he kill? Precisely for those who eat meat. If one eats meat, one partakes in the killing, and in the precept against killing there is thus a deficiency. If one were to claim that partaking in the share of killing while possessing wholesome discipline does not cause a deficiency in the precept against killing, then for a person of unwholesome discipline who observes the eightfold fast, that evil discipline should still continue. If an evil-disciplined person observing the eightfold fast no longer continues in evil discipline, then one knows that when a person of wholesome discipline receives shares of killing, that precept against killing is instantly breached; the prātimokṣa precept is no longer liberating. For a person of evil discipline, regardless of whether they observe the eightfold fast, as soon as a single thought of good arises, the evil discipline is severed. If it were not severed in a single thought-moment, it would also not be severed in many thought-moments; if it is severed in many thought-moments, one knows it is severed at the time of a single thought-moment. For a person of wholesome discipline the matter is also like this: regardless of receiving various shares of killing, if there is even a small share of killing, the discipline of non-killing is immediately severed as well. Bodhisattvas maintain the mind-precepts; therefore they know that in principle there is no such thing as eating sentient beings. If one breaches the śrāvaka precepts, in the end one cannot escape the sufferings of hell and the like." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.29.3) - [Next: 2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.30) - [Up: 2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.29) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083~en-mt.2.29.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.29.4) · Pramāṇa