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If one is able to practice and enjoy, and has the ability of meditation and recitation, then there is no fault in enjoying through permission. This means that even if one is an ordinary person, if one is diligent in abandoning and reciting the pure precepts, then the Buddha allows it, so there is no fault. The remainder is destroyed by ignorance. For oneself, it is repaying debts. This means that even if the precepts are pure, but if the mind is controlled by ignorance, so that one cannot hear and practice, then like the debt of a poor person, one must repay it in the next life. For those who break the precepts, at any time, temples, etc., cannot be enjoyed. This means that those who break the precepts have no dominion over the property of faith, even as small as a needle tip, and if they enjoy it, they will suffer great pain in hell. In the Sutra of the Buddha Treasury, it is said: Shariputra, a monk who has broken the precepts, for hundreds of thousands of trillions of kalpas, must cut off his own flesh to repay the benefactor. Even if he is born as a livestock, he will have to bear heavy burdens. If even a tiny part of a hair divided into a million parts cannot be digested, then what about clothes, food, bedding, and medicine, etc.? It is also said: Shariputra, in the land full of pus and blood, acting according to my rituals, one cannot tolerate living with a monk who has broken the precepts. Why is that? Because anything taken by the hand of a monk who has broken the precepts will become a deadly poison to a monk who upholds the precepts. So it is said. The confession and vows of individual liberation, associated with tranquility and Uposatha, are the Ganges River of purifying sins.