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28 May 2019    Tuesday     1st Teach Total 1558

The Scripture on the Collection of Fathers and Sons: Selected Discourses (Lecture 52)

said: "Indeed, it is so, great king. Ordinary ignorant beings, upon hearing pleasing sounds, give rise to affection and delight, which leads to attachment and defilement. They then commit unwholesome deeds: three kinds of bodily actions, four kinds of verbal actions, and three kinds of mental actions. Once these actions are committed, they vanish in an instant. After these actions vanish, they do not abide in the east, south, west, north, the four intermediate directions, above, below, or in the middle. However, at the final moment, when the life faculty ceases, the karmic retribution from one's own actions all manifests right before them, like awakening from a dream and recalling the events of the dream."

Explanation: said: "Great king, it is indeed as described. Foolish ordinary beings, upon hearing sounds they find pleasing, give rise to affection and delight in their minds. This gives rise to a defiled mind of craving, leading them to commit unwholesome karmic actions: bodily actions of killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct; verbal actions of divisive speech, harsh speech, frivolous speech, and false speech; and mental actions of greed, hatred, and delusion—ten kinds of unwholesome actions. After the unwholesome actions are committed, they vanish in an instant. Once vanished, the karmic actions do not reside in the east, south, west, north, the four intermediate directions, above, below, or in the middle; they disappear without a trace. However, at the final moment when the life faculty ceases, the karmic retribution from all the actions committed in this very life manifests entirely right before them, just like awakening from a dream and still recalling the events of the dream in the mind."

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