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Sutras2013-01-10

Leng Qie Sutra states: All living beings have been revolving in birth and death without stop from time without beginning. They have been fathers, mothers, brothers, males, females, friends and close loved ones to each other. We’ve even been birds and other animals so how could eat them?

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Surangama Sutra - Four Clear and Definitive Instructions on Purity2013-01-10

Further, Ananda, if living beings in the six paths of any mundane world had no thoughts of killing, they would not have to follow a continual succession of births and deaths.

Your basic purpose in cultivating samadhi is to transcend the wearisome defilements. But if you do not renounce your thoughts of killing, you will not be able to get out of the dust. Your basic purpose in cultivating samadhi is to transcend the wearisome defilements. But if you do not renounce your thoughts of killing, you will not be able to get out of the dust.

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One Must Cut Off Killing2013-01-10

Further, Ananda, if living beings in the six paths of any mundane world had no thoughts of killing, they would not have to follow a continual succession of births and deaths
Your basic purpose in cultivating Samadhi is to transcend the wearisome defilements. But if you do not renounce your thoughts of killing, you will not be able to get out of the dust.

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