翻譯名義集 2.87

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[Ku-nara]: Translated as "evil person," also as "bad person." When the First Sovereign of Shu was near death, he said to the Crown Prince: "Do not commit an evil deed because it is minor; do not fail to do good because it is minor." Confucius said: "See good as if you could not reach it; see evil as if you were testing boiling water." The Shangshu says: "Make known the good and penalize the evil, establishing a reputation that moves people like the wind." Zengzi said: "When a person loves the good, though fortune has not yet arrived, misfortune is already far away! When a person does evil, though calamity has not yet arrived, misfortune is already near!" The Bianmo shu says: "Seeing good, nurture it, like rain and dew covering the grass and trees; encountering evil, eradicate it, like a hawk or falcon pursuing small birds." The Mayi jing says: "The good and evil that a person does is known by four spirits: first, the earth spirit; second, the heaven spirit; third, bystanders; fourth, one's own mind." The Nirvāṇa Sūtra explains sixteen kinds of evil: first, for profit, feeding lambs to fatten them and then reselling them; second, for profit, buying and slaughtering them; third, for profit, rearing pigs to fatten them and then reselling them; fourth, for profit, buying and slaughtering them; fifth, for profit, rearing calves to fatten them and then reselling them; sixth, for profit, buying and slaughtering them; seventh, for profit, raising chickens to make them fat and then reselling them; eighth, for profit, buying and slaughtering them; ninth, angling for fish; tenth, being a hunter; eleventh, robbery and pillage; twelfth, executioners and slaughterers; thirteenth, catching flying birds with nets; fourteenth, double-tongued speech; fifteenth, being a prison warden; sixteenth, conjuring dragons.