Post by Neo on Oct 18, 2020 21:03:52 GMT -5
For scattering flowers the same holds true. This refers to speaking the Dharma, scattering flowers of virtue, in order to benefit others and glorify the real sell. These flowers of virtue are those praised by the Buddha. They last forever and never fade. And whoever scatters such flowers reaps infinite blessings. If you think the Tathagata meant for people to harm plants by cutting off their flowers, you're wrong.
Those who observe the precepts don't injure any of the myriad life forms of heaven and earth.
If you hurt something by mistake, you suffer for it. But those who intentionally break the precepts by injuring the living for the sake of future blessings suffer even more, How could they let would-be blessings turn into sorrows? ~ Bodhidharma' s Breakthrough Sermon
Source:
www.purifymind.com/Sutras19.htm
Those who observe the precepts don't injure any of the myriad life forms of heaven and earth.
If you hurt something by mistake, you suffer for it. But those who intentionally break the precepts by injuring the living for the sake of future blessings suffer even more, How could they let would-be blessings turn into sorrows? ~ Bodhidharma' s Breakthrough Sermon
Source:
www.purifymind.com/Sutras19.htm