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The Discourse on the Slayer of Living Beings
264.
"Monks, one possessed of four qualities is deposited in hell as if carried there.
With which four?
He himself is one who kills living beings, and he instigates others in killing living beings, and he is approving of killing living beings, and he praises killing living beings -
Monks, one possessed of these four qualities is deposited in hell as if carried there.
"Monks, one possessed of four qualities is deposited in heaven as if carried there. With which four? He himself abstains from killing living beings, and he instigates others in abstention from killing living beings, and he is approving of abstention from killing living beings, and he praises abstention from killing living beings - Monks, one possessed of these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if carried there." The first.