法苑珠林 98.39

English (machine translation) 98.39

Language: English

98.39

When Ānanda heard this, he sighed in sorrow: 'How swiftly the eye of the world has been extinguished! How could defilements and evils arise so easily? Violating the holy teaching, they conceive false thoughts on their own. This is not the Buddha's word and must not be practiced. You should know now that two kinds of people slander the Buddha: first, those who, though broadly learned, give rise to wrong views; second, those who do not understand the profound meaning and make inverted, false statements. These two conditions bring self-destruction and cannot lead people away from the three evil destinies. Listen carefully now while I recite the Buddha's verse:

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese