འཕགས་པ་ལགས་ཉས་ཀྱ་རྒྱ་དང་འབྲས་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4

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comes from having previously been a sheep.³³ As a human, being dark and scrawny comes from having obscured images of the thus-gone ones.³⁴ As a human, having unsightly lips comes from having eaten food off of stūpas.³⁵ As a human, having red eyes comes from having been stingy with fire.³⁶ As a human, having poor eyesight comes from having gouged out the eyes of falcons.³⁷ As a human, being mute comes from having denigrated the Dharma. As a human, being deaf comes from having been displeased upon hearing the Dharma. As a human, having sharp teeth comes from having taken great pleasure in gnawing on bones and eating meat.³⁸ As a human, having a crooked nose³⁹ comes from having made malodorous offerings to the thus-gone ones. As a human, having a cleft lip comes from having pierced the cheeks of fish.⁴⁰ As a human, having yellowed hair comes from having plucked out the hair of pigs. As a human, having split ears comes from having punctured the ears of others.⁴¹ As a human, having a snake-like body⁴² comes from having worn light and thin clothing in the presence of the thus-gone ones.⁴³ As a human, having a dark complexion comes from having put statues of the thus-gone ones beneath courtyards and exposed them to smoke.⁴⁴ As a human, having disabled limbs comes from not having risen when seeing preceptors, masters, or gurus.⁴⁵ As a human, being hunchbacked comes from having worn light and thin clothing and turned one’s back when passing the thus-gone ones.⁴⁶