"Strong enough to take a life
Are you strong enough to take care of one?"
♥
"When a person takes life, then with the taking of life as a requisite condition, he produces fear & animosity in the here & now, produces fear & animosity in future lives, experiences mental concomitants of pain & despair; but when he refrains from taking life, he neither produces fear & animosity in the here & now nor does he produce fear & animosity in future lives, nor does he experience mental concomitants of pain & despair: for one who refrains from taking life, that fear & animosity is thus stilled.
-Buddha, Vera Sutta: Animosity
He goes on to repeat these same words in the context of each of the other four precepts, as well.
Consequence, consequences, consequences.
ReplyDeletebut it's good to know consequence can have a positive meaning, too ^_^
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