The Sayings of the Buddha in Forty-Two Sections, no 5

5. The Buddha said: "If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider

"If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself and practice goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires."

From:

The Sayings of the Buddha in Forty-Two Sections

by Kasyapa Matanga and Gobharana

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