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法苑珠林 24.28

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24.28

Furthermore, if renunciants practice the giving of wealth, it hinders other wholesome deeds: staying far away from āraṇya hermitages, they must inevitably visit settlements to consort with laypeople, engaging in much talk that gives rise to the three poisons, their minds growing weak regarding the six perfections and so forth, even craving the five desires, abandoning the precepts, and returning to secular life—hence it is called death. Or they might violate the precepts and readily give rise to grave sins; this is called being equal to death, along with various troubles and suffering of afflictions. For these reasons, the giving of the Dharma is praised in renunciants, and the giving of wealth is praised in householders.

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