Numbered Discourses 4.264
- Ways of Performing Deeds
Killing Living Creatures
“Mendicants, someone with four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
What four?
They themselves kill living creatures; they encourage others to kill living creatures; they approve of killing living creatures; and they praise killing living creatures.
Someone with these four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
Someone with four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.
What four?
They don’t themselves kill living creatures; they encourage others to not kill living creatures; they approve of not killing living creatures; and they praise not killing living creatures.
Someone with these four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”