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• A moment of anger may destroys the merit which has been accumulated for eons
• Evil accumulated by negligence, not knowing the fear and attachment to the impermanent life
• When evil actions have been accumulated through time without beginning there is no possibility of obtaining a good birth
• Sorrows, dejection, fears and obstacles in getting what they crave for happen to those who do evil
• The desire of happiness by the evil-doers is met with the weapons of suffering wherever they go
• Description of the hell where people get born as a consequence of unwholesome action
• Bad rebirth, inferior position, stupidity come as a result of desire to promote self-interests while those desire that for the others, will get a good rebirth, good standing and intelligence
• One who commands people for his own benefit will become a slave as a consequence while the one who commands oneself for the other's benefit will become a Master
• Killing one's parents will make one fuel in the hell
• Those who kill living birds, fish, wild animals or lurks on the road [is going to be fuel in the hell]
• All the people who are suffering in the world suffer from their desire of their happiness; all the happy people in the world are happy because of their desire for the others' happiness