諸經要集 18.53

18.53

"Eleventh, there are sentient beings who are constantly on hills of knives and trees of swords. Whatever they grasp immediately cuts and wounds them, severing their limbs and joints. What sin brought this about?" The Buddha said: "In their past lives, it was due to having slaughtering as their occupation, cooking and harming sentient beings, butchering, carving, flaying, and tearing them, separating flesh from bone, scattering their heads and limbs, hanging them on high racks to weigh and sell them, or hanging sentient beings up alive in terrible agony. Therefore they suffered this sinful retribution."