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Iti 25 Lying

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Iti 25 - Lying
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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So It Was Said 25
The Book of the Ones
Chapter Three
Lying
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, for an individual person who transgresses in one thing, there is no bad deed they would not do, I say. What one thing? It is this: telling a deliberate lie.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
“When a personage, spurning the hereafter,
transgresses in just one thing—
lying—
there is no evil they would not do.”
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.