諸經要集 9.92

9.92

Furthermore, the Saṃyuktāgama says: At that time, the Bhagavat addressed the bhikṣus: “For example, if a wooden pestle is constantly used without stopping, it wears away day and night. So it is with a bhikṣu: if from the beginning he does not close the sense doors, does not know moderation in eating, and in the first watch of the night and the last watch of the night does not diligently awaken to practice good dharmas, you should know that such persons will diminish all day long and not increase in good dharmas, just like that wooden pestle.” Furthermore, the Ziai jing says: The Buddha said: When a person lives in the world, harboring venomous thoughts in their mind, uttering venomous words with their mouth, and practicing venomous deeds with their body—these three arise from mind, body, and speech. They initiate and accomplish evil to inflict on sentient beings. When sentient beings are poisoned, they form resentment and hatred, vowing in their hearts to retaliate: they take revenge either in the present life, or after the body ends when the spirit ascends to heaven and descends to retaliate. Among humans, animals, ghosts, spirits, and in Mount Tai, they mutually harm and plunder one another, all due to past lives, not arising out of nothing. The Buddha spoke a gāthā: