Not
Killing promotes Harmlessness and thus produces Peace!
Once in
Savatthi
the Blessed
Buddha
said this:
What,
householder friends, is the Dhamma explanation befitting to oneself?
Here, householder friends, a Noble Disciple reflects thus: I am
one who wishes
to live, who does not wish to die; I desire
happiness & do not like any suffering.
If someone were to take
my life, it would neither be pleasing nor agreeable to me.
If I
kill whatever another being: One who also wishes to live, who also
does not
wish to die, who also desires happiness & who also
dislike suffering, that would
neither be pleasant nor acceptable
to that other being either...
What is displeasing and
disagreeable to me, is also displeasing and disagreeable
to any
other being too. How can I inflict upon another being what is
displeasing
and disagreeable to myself? Having reflected
repeatedly thus, then gradually:
1: He/she will carefully avoid
all destruction of any life-form whatsoever...
2: He/she will
persuade others also to abstain from all destruction of any life...
3: He/she will speak praising harmlessness and avoidance of all &
any killing...
In exactly this way is this good bodily behaviour
purified in three respects!
Source
(edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya. [V:353]
section 55:
Sotāpattisamyutta. Thread 7: To the people at the Bamboo gate...
HARMLESSNESS AVOIDS THE ULTIMATE WRONG!
All sentient beings feel pain from violence.
All sentient beings
fear death.
Seeing other beings are like oneself;
Treating
other beings like oneself;
One should never ever harm nor kill
...
Dhammapada 129
Whoever harms the harmless & innocent
beings,
upon such very fool, pain of evil promptly return
as
dust thrown against the wind.
Dhammapada 125
Whoever injures, with weapon or stick,
beings
searching for their happiness - when after death -
seeking same happiness, such fool never finds it!
Dhammapada 131
Whoever never injures, with weapon nor stick, beings
searching for their happiness - when after death -
seeking same
happiness, such clever & kind one
always gain it!
Dhammapada 132
The Noble is not one who injures living
beings.
The Noble is one who never injures living beings.
Dhammapada 270
Ever are the true disciples of the Buddha
well awake & quite aware. Constantly they
meditate both day &
night on Harmlessness.
Dhammapada 300
The one who has left violence,
who never harm any being,
whether moving are stationary,
who never kill nor causes to kill,
such one, harmless, is a Holy One.
Dhammapada 405
The one who is friendly among the hostile,
who is harmless among the violent,
who is detached among the
greedy,
such one is a Holy One.
Dhammapada 406
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