So It Was Said 25

The Book of the Ones

Chapter Three

Lying

iti25:1 This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

iti25:2 “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:

iti25:3 “When a personage, spurning the hereafter, transgresses in just one thing— lying— there is no evil they would not do.”

iti25:4 This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.