諸經要集 13.69

13.69

Furthermore, the Bashi jing says: The Buddha explained the teaching of the eight teachers to a brāhmaṇa. The Buddha said: The first is called violence, destroying and harming living beings. One may be executed by enemies, or punished and executed by royal law, destroying even one's clan; upon death one enters hell, where through burning, boiling, torturing, and beating, all the ten thousand poisons are experienced; seeking death, it cannot be attained, and only when the sin is exhausted does one emerge. One may become a hungry ghost, or shall become an animal, butchered, severed, skinned, and torn apart, meeting a new blade upon each death, one's spirit wandering through successive rebirths, continually inflicting mutual slaughter. Having seen that those who kill incur such sins, I dare not kill again: this is my first teacher. The Buddha thereupon spoke in verse: