The mouth is silent, guarded in speech, speaking without defect, and the mouth speaks the truth. In solitude and in the company of others, he is always sincere in his speech. He does not double-talk because of his country, he does not deceive by talking about treasures and goods, and he does not double-talk because his parents and relatives are greedy for wealth and treasure.
--To protect a pure mouth, all words spoken should be free of defects and should be worded in accordance with the true meaning of the Dharma. If one is alone, or in a public place, one's speech should be sincere and trustworthy. One should not speak in a duplicitous manner because of national affairs, one should not speak deceitfully or falsely in order to gain more treasure in business, and one should not make a fuss because one's parents and relatives are greedy for money and treasure.
The king who kept his word
Once upon a time, there was a king named Sutrasuma, who was a devout Buddhist, who followed the teachings of the Buddhists, and who was honest and sincere, and who never told any lies or meaningless words.
One morning, the king was riding in his car with his ladies to enjoy the flowers in the royal garden. Shortly after walking out of the city gates, he saw a practitioner walking on his way, stopping in front of the king's chariot to ask the king for money.
At that time, the king didn't have any food or goods that could be offered to the practitioner, so he said to the practitioner, "I don't have any offerings with me now, so please go to the palace and wait for me, and when I come back to the palace, I will definitely offer them to you." When he had said this, he went with the court ladies to the garden to enjoy the flowers and playfully roam about.
At that time, there was a demon king with a pair of large wings named "Kagura". He flew in the sky and had kidnapped ninety-nine kings in India.
Just when the king was having fun, suddenly the king of the deer foot demon flapped big wings from the sky, the court ladies are still scared and do not know how to react, the king of the deer foot demon king has caught the king, sped away.
When the king was taken away by the demon, everyone was frightened and cried. The cries of the court ladies alarmed the whole country. When the people of the country saw that the king was nowhere to be found, everyone mourned and wept with great sadness.
The Deer-footed Demon King carried the king on his back and returned to the Demon King's abode, where he placed King Sudasumha among the ninety-nine kings whom he had taken captive. At this, King Sudasuma was seen to be very sad with tears falling like rain.
When the king of the deer-footed devas saw this, they were dismayed, and mocked him, saying, "I say, O great king! You are the king of a country, the life and death of a person is determined by heaven, why do you cry and wail like a child?"
King Sudasumha replied, "It is not that I am afraid of death! Rather, I am remorseful for having lost my credibility to others. I have never told a lie or done anything to break faith with others in all my life. But this morning a cultivator came to me to ask for karma, and I promised at the time that I would make offerings to him when I returned. I didn't realize that something had changed now, and that I had thus broken faith with him and committed the sin of deceiving others, and it is for this reason that I am crowing!"
The Deer-footed Demon King was moved by King Sudasuma's tearful explanation, and thinking that such honesty on the part of King Sudasuma was rare, he said to him, "You need not be afraid of breaking faith. You should simply go back and fulfill your promise to provide for the cultivator within seven days, and then come back here. If you don't come back after seven days, I'll just fly off again and get you; it's an easy task for me anyway, so go and come back quickly!"
When King Sudasuma returned to his country, he hastened to give alms widely, and at the same time made the prince king, and expressed his penitence and thanks to the public, "I am slow of intellect and foolish by nature, and I am unable to govern the state, so I ask for your forgiveness. I am now at the mercy of my body and my life, and am about to go far away from you to a land unknown to me."
The people of the country and the king's dependents came and bowed to the king and would not let him go. Everyone said, "Please stay, Great King! Stay and protect us and rule the country, and don't be afraid of that demon. If he flies, we can prepare an iron house and set up an elite army to fight him!"
When the king heard this, he said to everyone, "We can't do that! I appreciate everyone's thoughts, but please listen to my advice."
Then the king recited a verse:
"Truthfulness is the first commandment, truthfulness rises to heaven.
Truthfulness is small and great, delusion goes to hell.
I keep the truth today and have no remorse in my heart."
After reciting this verse, the king set out alone for the abode of the Deerfoot Demon King.
Looking at the end of the seven days, the king saw from afar that King Sudasuma had come as promised, and with great admiration and joy in his heart, he said to King Sudasuma, "You are truly a truthful man who keeps his word! Who among the vast number of living beings does not cherish their lives? You have escaped from my hands and have come back to fulfill your agreement and keep your word, what a great man!"
King Sudasuma said, "I am not great, I am only abiding by a creed that one should abide by as a human being. To be honest, it is the precepts of Buddhism that teach me to be honest and trustworthy. There are five fundamental precepts in Buddhism, which are not to kill, not to speak delusionally, not to drink alcohol, not to engage in evil behavior, and not to steal. If one breaks one's trust, one is breaking the precept of delusion and lying to deceive others."
King Sudasuma then went on to share even more with the Deerfoot Demon King many of the insights he had gained from practicing the Buddhist scriptures, which gave the Deerfoot Demon King a sense of enlightenment.
The Deer-footed Demon King confessed to King Sudasuma, "Thank you for letting me hear such precious Dharma. I have now decided to send all the ninety-nine kings I took captive safely to their countries and set them free."
From then on, the Deerfoot Demon King was never seen again, and everyone said that he had gone to a deep mountain to practice.
Only because of slandering people in his past life
Once upon a time, there was an arahat in the country of the Sympathetic Kingdom, Li Yue, who was sitting in meditation in a mountain, when someone lost his ox and followed the trail to his dwelling place, and at that time, as he was boiling grass and dyeing his clothes, by the power of his karma, he saw that the vestments of the law naturally changed into cowhide, and the juice of the dyeing juice naturally changed into the blood of the ox, and the boiled and dyed grass changed into the beef, and the mantle that he was holding changed into the head of the ox. Seeing this, the man caught and bound Rikakoshi and delivered him to the king, who then sent him to prison.
The prison lasted twelve years, during which time he used to feed the horses and remove the dung for the prison guards. He had 500 disciples who had attained the fruits of arhatship, and they were looking for their master, but they did not know where he was.
When the karma was about to end, one of the disciples saw that his master was in the prison of the Sympathizer, and came to tell the king, "My master is in the prison, and I wish the king to rule on him."
The king immediately sent a messenger to the prison to check, and when the messenger arrived at the prison, he saw only a man with an emaciated face and very long hair, feeding horses and removing dung for the prison guard. When the messenger returned, he reported to the king that he had not seen any Shamans leaving the country.
The disciple again said to the king, "May the king decree that all bhikkhus are permitted to leave the prison." The king then declared as such. Upon hearing this, Rikoshi's hair fell from his head, his robe was draped over his body, and he danced out into the void and manifested ten divine transformations.
When the king saw this, he threw himself on the ground and said to Rikoshi, "Your Holiness, may you accept my repentance." And he asked, "By what karma has Your Holiness been caused to suffer in prison?"
Rikoshi replied, "In the past, I too lost a cow and followed it to find it, at which time I slandered others for stealing it for a day and a night. Later, I fell into the Three Paths and suffered immeasurably, and the remaining sufferings have not yet been completed; today I have attained the fruit of luohan, but I still suffer the retribution of being slandered by others."
Because the one whom Rikakoshi slandered in his previous life was the Pai Chi Buddha, he received this retribution because of this karma.
The Dharma Master Who Fell into the Infernal Hells
One day, the Buddha's great disciple, Megiddo, went to the hells with his magical powers, and saw a being several yurts long suffering in the infernal hells. By the manifestation of its karma, there were many jailers dragging out its tongue and laying it on a burning red-hot steel plate floor and pinning it down, and many peasants drove oxen and plowed on its tongue. Sometimes the flames were so hot that the whole tongue and body were burned to ashes, and then they came back to life again; and many farmers drove oxen on their tongues to plow the land. The feet of the oxen and the farmers stepped down and lifted up, and at every step a weapon appeared and cut the tongue into pieces of flesh. It writhed and rolled over in agony and wailed loudly.
Witnessing this, Megiddo used his wisdom to observe what evil karma he had created in his previous life, so that he would feel such suffering in this life, and as far as his wisdom was able to observe in all his lifetimes, he saw that this being had always suffered in the infernal hells, and that when it was destroyed it would be reborn in other hells, with no time for it to come out.
Thinking that only the all-knowing Buddha could see the truth, Megiddo returned to the city of Shewei in a flash, reported what he had seen, and asked about the cause of the above karmic retribution in his previous life.
The Buddha said, "This being has created great evil karma. In the past, when the Lost Heart Buddha came into being, there was a Tripitaka master in the royal palace who served the people of the palace and the inner and outer cities respectfully, and was very rich in clothes, food, and medicines. Later, a Lohan bhikkhu with five hundred dependents first stayed in the palace and then settled outside the palace. This Lohan was so dignified in appearance and possessed the virtues of a saint that many people grew to respect him and made respectful offerings to him. Inside the palace, the Venerable Tripitaka lost his fame and fortune, and became distressed and wanted to do harm. So he slandered the Lohan in front of many people for no reason: 'That Lohan has broken the fundamental precepts, and what he is practicing is not Dharma, it is a layman's way, and he has evil knowledge and evil views, so don't rely on it, and there is no practical benefit in making respectful offerings. ......' Hearing these slanders, many people believed them, and then stopped respecting him. Hearing these slanders, many people believed them and stopped making respectful offerings to Lohan. Lohan therefore decided to leave the area so that he would not continue to create more evil karma by making slanderous remarks without cause. The Tripitaka in the palace was naturally very happy, and his fame and fortune were restored, but after his death he fell into the Infernal Hell. Bhikkhus, the Tripitaka Venerable Master at that time is a being who is now suffering in the infernal hells. Because he slandered the Rohan bhikkhus without cause, he has not yet attained liberation under the teachings of the Lossless Mind of the Buddha up to the present time."
Megha asked again, "World Honored One, when will this being be liberated?"
The World Honored One said, "In the future, it will be able to obtain a human body when the Rightly Enlightened Teacher, Rudra, comes into the world, and under his teachings it will become a monk and attain arahantship. When it attained the Arahantship, it was also slandered by many people. By slandering the Lohan bhikkhu without cause, he will be slandered by many people in subsequent lifetimes."
People Living the Dharma
The precept of delusion is one of the five precepts of the Buddhist system. Delusional speech refers to a mind that is not in harmony with its words and that does not speak the truth for the purpose of deceiving others and deluding them of the truth. It can be seen that the "delusion" in the five precepts does not only refer to the telling of falsehoods and lies, but all means used for the purpose of deceiving others and obscuring the truth can be called "delusion". Especially in today's such an impatient, money-oriented society, the improvement of material conditions and the lack of oxygen of the spiritual activities of the extreme imbalance, delusion is all over the world, false advertising, shoddy products, and even untrue news, which has nothing to do with the delusion?
The Buddha warned the world that there are five kinds of delusion:
The first is delusion: it means that the mouth is not what the heart is, and the deceit is not true;
The second is flowery language: flowery language, which is harmful to the customs;
The third is evil mouth: insulting and slandering, and the evil words hurt people;
The fourth is double-tongue: to this and that, and to provoke right and wrong.
There is also a kind of great delusion, in which a person who is not a holy person tells others that he or she is an arahant or a first-fruit saint, or that he or she is an incarnation of a certain Buddha or Bodhisattva, and asks people to come to worship and make offerings to him or her. These are all great delusions, and they are breaking of the precepts, and they must fall into the hells.
In today's age of rapidly expanding human greed, the creation of delusional karma in order to gain fame and fortune is very common and serious.
In the business world, unscrupulous merchants go to great lengths to exaggerate the functions of their goods. For example, a very common foodstuff is boasted to have the omnipotent efficacy of prolonging life, curing all diseases, and developing intelligence through overwhelming advertisements, which makes thousands of families fall for the deception, and supports the pockets of unscrupulous merchants! Originally people's intellectual fainting wine, alcohol advertising screen on the display for health, clean, elegant image, published and broadcast these advertisements in newspapers, magazines, television, websites, etc., in order to earn advertising fees, play the role of accomplices.
Some journalists and editors, who have no professional ethics, accept bribes and then write so-called paid news that does not correspond to the facts, in order to build a monument for people. As a result, many crooks become celebrities and successful people, and then take advantage of this blown reputation to commit fraud.
Some hospitals, in the absence of real medical level, equipment conditions, etc., desperately in a variety of media advertisements, claiming that the medical conditions how advanced, expert medical skills how superb, the cure rate blown into almost 100 percent. After recruiting the patients, they are perfunctorily treated with inferior medical technology. Patients pay thousands of dollars of huge medical fees, almost all the money, but the condition is no improvement, then the hospital and various excuses to shirk their responsibilities, the patient kicked off.
The lies in the literary world are even more pervasive, with so-called documentary literature, movies, and TV dramas completely ignoring historical facts, turning black and white upside down, and arbitrarily distorting them.
Academia originally claimed to be truth-seeking and rigorous, but today the phenomenon of falsification is also alarming. For example, in order to assess the title, in order to make the paper published in academic journals, random fabrication of experimental data. Or, after receiving money from unscrupulous businessmen or organizations, they issue false appraisal reports without strict examination. These are completely against the basic truth-seeking and honesty of a scientific worker's professional ethics.
In the professional world, in order to seek employment and promotion, spend money to buy fake diplomas, fake education, fabricate false work resume, technical expertise.
Some entertainment TV programs, the hosts of the best of the clever tongue, an exit is delusional, beautiful language, unpleasant dirty language, people are listening to the enjoyment of the gods, the gods upside down, the hosts are not ashamed to worship as an idol to worship to emulate.
Some tourist attractions, in order to attract tourists, the poor mountains and remote areas portrayed as cultural resorts, paradise, paradise on earth, publicity, attracting people to be fooled.
Some qigong masters, make up a set of gong method, boasting that repair his gong method can strengthen the body, develop all kinds of human body supernormal capabilities, as a result, many people not only did not refining out of what, but also caused out of the bias, induced out of the mental problem, not only failed to fitness, but also make the body more weak ......
From the above can be The delusion karma in this age is very serious, delusion seems to be a common household habit, for people often use, and do not think it is a sin. The thirty-six trades and professions are all characterized by delusion, and the evil karma that people used to be ashamed of is now a widespread phenomenon. Nowadays, in the information society, some advertisements on TV stations, newspapers and magazines, and on the Internet have an audience of hundreds of millions of people, and their influence is very great; the way of dissemination is not for one person to say to another, but for the manipulator behind the scenes to use the media as a way to make statements in words, to display images in various pictures, and to render them with various techniques and sounds and lights; the number of times that it is used is not just one time, but it is broadcasted intensively, bombarded, and blown up on radio and TV, and other media. It is not once, but on radio and television and other media.
Where is the root of such unprecedented delusional karma? It lies in the fact that people do not have the right view of cause and effect, and do not regard delusion as sinful karma, so when they are aroused, everyone tends to create evil. Only by establishing the right view of cause and effect can this overwhelming lie and endless mutual deception disappear.
Buddhism says not to speak delusionally, but to believe in cause and effect, to speak truthfully, to be honest, and to be trustworthy, and to think that out-of-context or ill-advised speech is an impediment to people's liberation, and that it is of no benefit to them in their quest for the path of liberation. It is important to realize that the consequences of delusional speech are extremely serious, because the act of delusional speech will lead many sentient beings astray. He has misled sentient beings, and he himself will pay a great price for it. The Earth Store Bodhisattva's True Vow Sutra says, "In the future world, if there are men and women who do not practice good deeds, who practice evil deeds, and even those who do not believe in cause and effect, those who are evil and delusional, those who have two tongues and evil mouths, and those who slander the Mahayana, such are the karmic beings who will surely fall into evil destinies."
The Dhammapada says that there are ten sins of delusional speech:
One, "foul breath."
Two: "Good gods are far away, and non-people gain access to them": that is, for a person who speaks delusionally, good gods will be far away, unwilling to get close to him, and some non-people will take advantage of the situation to interfere with his body and mind. If there is a general lack of integrity among the citizens of a country, there will be no righteousness in that country, and evil will easily intrude.
Three: "Even if one speaks the truth, people do not believe it": even if one speaks the truth, others do not believe it. In this day and age, there is a general lack of mutual trust.
Four: "The wise man's counseling is often not participated in": Driven by the habit of delusion, one is accustomed to living in the world of delusion, but the wise man's truthful speech, the speech that can bring peace and happiness to the heart, is avoided and not participated in. In the age of delusional speech, what people delight in are dharmas that are deceptive, and they feel appropriate in those kinds of occasions, whereas the places where truly pure and righteous dharmas are exchanged are places that they do not want to gravitate into, but rather to avoid.
Fifth, "often slandered, the ugly sound of the world": today's era, some people make a lot of money, but often be slandered, this is not without reason, we see almost all the celebrities, big businessman slandered, the more public figures, the more will be randomly criticized, the notoriety than anyone else to spread quickly. He is a little something today, will be the reporter hype, make up a lot of strange things, instantly spread around the world.
Sixth: "People do not respect him, and although he has teachings and edicts, they do not accept them": the one who speaks delusionally, people no longer respect him, and although he stands up and says some teachings, no one listens to and accepts them and follows them.
Seven, "often much sorrow": the deluded speaker's heart is not frank, so he is sorrowful, fearing that others will expose his lies. Though the advertisements boast greatly, the more they boast, the more they fear that the truth will be exposed.
Eighth: "Planting slanderous karma karma": even if one is not slandered, one is determined to be slandered in the future.
Nine: "When the body is destroyed and the life is over, one will fall into hell.
Ten: "If you go out as a human being, you will always be slandered."
The last two articles are about the fruits of the afterlife and receiving the fruits of equinoctial flow, and that one will fall into hell at the end of one's life with delusional karma, and that one will often be slandered by others if one is reborn as a human being from the hells.
In order not to commit delusion, we must always reflect on ourselves and see if we have the habit of speaking ill of others. Is one often delusional without realizing it? Is the profession you are engaged in part of the Eightfold Path of the Buddha's "right life"? As Venerable Master Jeet Kuneo said, "In choosing a profession, we must conform to the laws and precepts, and must not be careless in matters of principle. By analogy, occupations related to acts prohibited by the precepts, such as theft, evil prostitution, and delusion, are all less than lawful and do not belong to the realm of rightful destiny, and should not be engaged in blindly by those who study Buddhism."
In today's society, taking the precepts of delusional speech, refraining from telling lies and engaging in deception among individuals, and promoting honest relationships among people. The role of Buddhist teachings and precepts in enhancing people's spiritual sentiments should be brought into play to advance the healthier development of human civilization.