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The Discourse on Schism in the Community
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This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"One thing, monks, arising in the world arises for the harm of many people, for the unhappiness of many people, for the harm, for the detriment, for the suffering of gods and humans. What is that one thing? Schism in the Community. But when the monastic community is split, monks, there are mutual quarrels, there is mutual abuse, there is mutual exclusion, there is mutual abandonment. Therein those without faith do not gain faith, and for some of those with faith there is alteration." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
Delighting in discord, established in what is not the Teaching, he falls from freedom from bondage;
Having split a united Community, he is tormented in hell for a cosmic cycle."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The eighth.