Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 5.129

  1. Sick

Fatal Wounds

“Mendicants, these five fatal wounds lead to a place of loss, to hell.

What five?

Murdering your mother or father or a perfected one; maliciously shedding the blood of a Realized One; and causing a schism in the Saṅgha.

These five fatal wounds lead to a place of loss, to hell.”