100 Demerits
- cause one death
- violate a woman's chastity
- praise another for drowning his or her chld
- stop the family lineage
50 demerits
- induce one abortion
- break up one marriage
- abandon another's remains
- cause another to be homeless
- cause another to commit a serious crime
- teach another to do great evil
- make a speech that harms many people
- steal another's wife or daughter
30 demerits
- create slander to dishonour another
- reveal private secrets of another
- encourage another to sue
- break another's religious vow
- go against an elder
- offend father or older brother
- cause the separation of family
- in times of famine to save grains without sharing
10 demerits
- dishonour a virtuous person
- recommend an evil person
- flatten a grave
- mistreat an orphan or vidow
- take in an unchaste woman
- keep a murder weapon in the household
- speak harshly towards parents, teachers and wise person
- prepare poison
- punish a criminal improperly
- destroy writing on the truth
- have evil thoughts while reciting the sutras
- teach false knowledge
- take non-virtuously
- kill an animal that cans serve man
5 demerits
- sneer and slander spiritual teachings
- not clear an injustice when given an opportunity
- turn away a sick person seeking help
- block a road or bridge
- write lewd artilces
- write a lewd song
- speak harshly with others
- kill one animal that cannot serve man
3 demerits
- get angry over words not to one's liking
- scold one who does not deserve it
- break up relations through double talk
- cheat an ignorant person
- destroy another's success
- rejoice in another's worry
- rejoice in another's loss of wealth and name
- wish a rich person to be poor
- blame heaven and others for one's own misfortune
- to be greedy in making money
1 demerit
- cover another's merit
- urge another to fight
- generate thought to harm another
- help another to do evil
- not stop another from stealing small items
- not comfort another in fright or worry
- not care about the hardship of human or animal
- steal one small needle or grass
- throw away paper with words
- waste food
- break promise
- cause another to be druk
- not help another who is hungry or cold
- miss one word in reciting sutra
- turn away a monk begging for food
- turn away a beggar
- recite sutras or go to the temples while eating food with five pungent spices or drinking alcohol
- eat the meat of an animal that works for man
- kill a minute life form
- spill bird's nest and break the eggs
- misuse funds
- to be in debt
- damage temples and statues
- use false weights
- sell a butcher's knife, fish net etc
- use one's position to take bribes and other's money
- keep lost articles
- take goods while safe keeping them for others
The end of Liao-fan's 4 lessons
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