THE SUTRA OF FORTY-TWO SECTIONS SPOKEN BY THE BUDDHA

THE SUTRA OF FORTY-TWO SECTIONS SPOKEN BY THE BUDDHA no: 5

Jointly translated in the Later Han Dynasty by the monksKasyapa Matanga and Gobharana from Central India.

5. The Buddha said: "If a man has all kinds of faults and does not regret them, in the space of a single heartbeat retribution will suddenly fall upon him and, as water returning to the sea,will gradually become deeper and wider. (But), if a man has faults and, becoming aware of them, changes for the better,retribution will melt away into nothingness of its own accord,as the danger of a fever gradually abates once perspiration has set in.

- THE SUTRA OF FORTY-TWO SECTIONS SPOKEN BY THE BUDDHA
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