Tipiṭaka

Dasakanipāta 175

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Numbered Discourses 10.185

18. Good

Mortifying

1 “I will teach you the mortifying principle and the unmortifying. … And what is the mortifying principle? Killing living creatures … wrong view. This is called the mortifying principle.

2 And what is the unmortifying principle? Not killing living creatures … right view. This is called the unmortifying principle.”

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Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, Mahāsaṅgīti edition.

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