諸經要集 13.56

13.56

故地持論云。妄語之罪。亦令眾生墮三惡道。若生人中。得二種果報。一者多被誹謗。二者為人所誑。何故妄語墮於地獄。緣其妄語不實。使人虛爾生苦。是以身死受地獄苦。何故妄語出為畜生。以其欺妄乖人誠信。所以出獄受畜生報。何故妄語復為餓鬼。緣其妄語皆因慳欺慳欺罪故。復為餓鬼。何故為人多被誹謗。以其妄語不誠實故。何故妄語為人所誑。以其妄語欺誘人故。當知妄語四大苦也。又緣其妄語。便致兩舌。今身言無慈愛。讒謗毀辱。惡口雜亂。死即當墮拔舌烊銅犁耕地獄。於遐劫中受諸苦惱。受苦即畢墮畜生中。噉食糞穢。如鵜鶘鳥。無有舌根。在此之中無量生死。以本因緣若遇微善。劣復人身。舌根不具。口氣臭惡。瘖啞謇澁。齒不齊白。滋歷疎少。脫有善言人不信用。當知讒亂皆緣兩舌生也。

Therefore, the Bodhisattvabhūmi-śāstra states: "The sin of false speech also causes sentient beings to fall into the three evil destinies. If born among humans, they receive two kinds of retributions: first, being much slandered; second, being deceived by others. Why does false speech lead to falling into the hells? Because false speech is untruthful, causing people to suffer in vain; hence, when the body dies, one receives the suffering of the hells. Why does false speech lead to emerging as an animal? Because one's deception and falsehood went against human sincerity; therefore, upon emerging from hell, one receives an animal retribution. Why does false speech further lead to becoming a hungry ghost? Because false speech all stems from stinginess and deception; through the sin of stinginess and deception, one further becomes a hungry ghost. Why, as a human, is one much slandered? Because of one's false speech and insincerity. Why, through false speech, is one deceived by others? Because with false speech one deceived and enticed others. One should know that false speech is the fourth great suffering." Furthermore, because of false speech, divisive speech immediately follows. If in this life one's speech lacks love and compassion, uttering slander, defamation, insults, and coarse, chaotic words, upon death one will immediately fall into the Hell of Tongue-Plucking, Molten Copper, and Plowing. One undergoes myriad sufferings and afflictions for distant kalpas. When the suffering is finished, one falls among animals, eating feces and filth, like the pelican bird, having no root of the tongue, undergoing immeasurable births and deaths therein. By virtue of one's fundamental causes and conditions, if one encounters slight good, one may feebly regain a human body, but one's tongue root will be incomplete, one's breath foul and repulsive, mute, stuttering, and hesitant, teeth irregular and unwhitened, sparse and few. Even if one happens to speak good words, people will not believe or trust them. One should know that slander and discord all arise from divisive speech.