法苑珠林 70.25

70.25

又八師經云。佛為梵志說八師之法。佛言。一謂匈暴殘害物命。或為怨家所見刑戮。或為王法所見誅治。滅及門族死入地獄。燒煮拷掠萬毒改更。求死不得。罪竟乃出。或為餓鬼。當為畜生。屠割剝裂。死輒更刃。魂神展轉。更相殘害。吾見殺者。其罪如此。不敢復殺。是吾一師。佛於是說偈言。

Furthermore, the Sūtra of the Eight Teachers states: The Buddha expounded the teaching of the eight teachers to a brāhmaṇa. The Buddha said: First is ferocious violence that slaughters sentient life. Such a person is either executed by their enemies or punished and executed by the king's law, bringing ruin upon their entire clan and entering hell at death. Roasted, boiled, and flogged amidst myriad changing poisons, they seek death but cannot die; only when the offense is exhausted do they emerge. They may become hungry ghosts, or they become animals, butchered, severed, skinned, and torn apart, dying repeatedly under changing blades, their spirits drifting and continuing to slaughter one another in turn. I saw that the offenses of those who kill are like this; not daring to kill again, this was my first teacher. The Buddha then spoke a gāthā, saying: