What are the 8 Training Rules (Precepts), which brings Divinity? The Blessed Buddha once said: The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity and greatness! And which are these 8 features? In this, any Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the Arahats avoid lying & refrain from any falsehood. They speak only the factual & actual truth, they are very devoted to valid accuracy, reliable, all honest, worthy of trust & confidence, and never neither deceiving, nor pretending! May I also, this day & night, avoid all lying & refrain from any fake falsehood... By that I will follow the track & traits of these perfected Arahats! I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly. With this fourth praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed in this very way, brings the observance day endowed with eight features high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity and immense greatness...
Honest Facts: There are those, who break the holy vows, who speak false, deceive & pretend, who thus cannot hope for a good future, There is no evil such ones cannot do ... ! Dhammapada 176
Those who falsely declare: "That indeed happened", about what did not happen or: "I did not do that", about what they actually did, earn themselves a hot ticket to a screaming future in Hell... Dhammapada 306
One can only convince the liar with truth.... Dhammapada 223
If one speaks truth only, one wins a divine future! Dhammapada 224
Behaviour that counts as ways of lying: Any falsehood, dishonesty, misrepresentation, fabrication, faking, evasion, pretending, deceiving, simulation, impersonation, misleading, mimicry, sham, double-dealing, imposting, imitation, cheating, fraud, swindling, trickery, forgery, fiction, perjury, untruthfulness, & any bending, colouring, cover up, concealing, disguising, hiding or obscuration of the facts!
