諸經要集 18.56

English (machine translation) 18.56

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18.56

"Fourteenth, there are sentient beings whose bodies are constantly shackled in fetters by the hell wardens, unable to escape. What sin brought this about?" The Buddha said: "In their past lives, it was due to catching sentient beings with nets, caging people and beasts in starvation and distress; or, as governing officials and magistrates, greedily taking wealth and unjustly imprisoning good people so that they cried out in resentment to high Heaven, unable to be free. Therefore they incurred this sinful retribution."

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