佛說佛名經 20.26

20.26

"Furthermore, from beginningless time, whether irrigating dry fields, aborting fetuses and causing miscarriages, breaking eggs and destroying nests, using poisons and witchcraft to injure and kill sentient beings; tilling the soil and digging the earth to plant fields and gardens; raising silkworms and boiling cocoons; keeping cats to catch mice, injuring and killing ever more exceedingly; or swatting and slapping mosquitoes, gadflies, greenbottles, flies, bees, and scorpions; pinching and squashing fleas and lice; or burning and clearing away dung and sweepings, unblocking and draining ditches and drains to the wrongful injury of all; or eating fruits, using grains and rice, or water, or vegetables, recklessly killing sentient beings; or kindling firewood, or exposing open lamps and candles to burn all manner of insects; or consuming sauces and vinegar without watching for writhing creatures; or pouring out boiling water, scalding and killing insects and ants; even so, throughout the four deportments of walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, constantly injuring and killing minute living beings flying in the air and clinging to the earth: we disciples, due to the darkness of ordinary consciousness, were unconscious and unaware. Today we disclose them, take refuge, and make repentance.