Scenario: You place a banana peel on the ground with the intention to decide at a later time whether or not you want someone to slip and fall and die because of it. You later decide mentally that yes you do want someone to die because of it. Someone later slips and falls and dies because of that banana. Would this count as a breach of the precept?
(I've never done this by the way)
Would this break the first precept?
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Re: Would this break the first precept?
yes because kamma is created by intention.Tom wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:30 pm Scenario: You place a banana peel on the ground with the intention to decide at a later time whether or not you want someone to slip and fall and die because of it. You later decide mentally that yes you do want someone to die because of it. Someone later slips and falls and dies because of that banana. Would this count as a breach of the precept?
(I've never done this by the way)
Re: Would this break the first precept?
Ah but maybe not because the person who did this may have gone bananas. I think mental health is considered as far as precepts are concerned
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Re: Would this break the first precept?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)
the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually incomprehensibly long, from hundreds of millions to quintillions of years
the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually incomprehensibly long, from hundreds of millions to quintillions of years
Re: Would this break the first precept?
Hello, may I ask why you posted this here? I don't mind, I'm just curiouscappuccino wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:43 pm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)
the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually incomprehensibly long, from hundreds of millions to quintillions of years
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Re: Would this break the first precept?
"all do respect n kindness" -- yeshi lhamo
"Just as the ocean has a single taste — that of salt — in the same way, this Dhamma-Vinaya has a single taste: that of release."
— Ud 5.5
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— Ud 5.5
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http://seeingthroughthenet.net/
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