Numbered Discourses 4.81
- Confirmed
Killing Living Creatures
“Mendicants, someone with four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
What four?
They kill living creatures, steal, commit sexual misconduct, and lie.
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 kill living creatures, steal, commit sexual misconduct, or lie.
Someone with these four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”