Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 10.185

  1. Good

Mortifying

“I will teach you the mortifying principle and the unmortifying. …

And what is the mortifying principle?

Killing living creatures …

wrong view.

This is called the mortifying principle.

And what is the unmortifying principle?

Not killing living creatures …

right view.

This is called the unmortifying principle.”