THE SUTRA OF THE FORTY-TWO SECTIONS.(Number 5)

THE SUTRA OF THE FORTY-TWO SECTIONS , Number 5


5. Buddha said: Living creatures by ten things attain virtue, p. 341 and by ten things become vile; what are these ten things? There are three pertaining to the body, four to the mouth, three to the thoughts; the three pertaining to the body are the slaughter of living creatures, theft, lust; the four belonging to the mouth are double-tongueness, slandering, lying, hypocrisy (or glozy conversation); the three evils of the thought are envy, anger, and wandering thoughts (chi). Disbelief in the three precious ones is the true source of all this evil. But the yan-po-sat (upasamandi) who observes the five rules untiringly, and advances to the ten, he must obtain reason.


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