sn42.9:4.1 “Sir, don’t you in many ways praise kindness, protection, and sympathy for families?”
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sn42.9:4.2 “Indeed I do, chief.”
sn42.9:4.3 “So what then are you doing, wandering together with this large Saṅgha of mendicants during a time of famine and scarcity, with crops blighted and turned to straw?
sn42.9:4.4 The Buddha is practicing to annihilate, collapse, and ruin families!”
sn42.9:4.5 “Well, chief, I recollect ninety-one eons back but I’m not aware of any family that’s been ruined merely by offering some cooked almsfood.
sn42.9:4.6 Rather, rich, affluent, and wealthy families—with lots of gold and silver, lots of property and assets, and lots of money and grain—all acquired their wealth because of giving, truth, and restraint.
sn42.9:4.7 Chief, there are eight causes and reasons for the ruin of families.
sn42.9:4.8 Their ruin stems from rulers, bandits, fire, or flood. Or they lose their savings. Or their business fails due to not applying themselves to work. Or a wastrel is born into the family who squanders and fritters away their wealth. And impermanence is the eighth.
sn42.9:4.9 These are the eight causes and reasons for the ruin of families.
sn42.9:4.10 Given that these eight reasons are found, suppose someone says this:
sn42.9:4.11 ‘The Buddha is practicing to annihilate, collapse, and ruin families!’
sn42.9:4.12 Unless they give up that speech and that thought, and let go of that view, they will be placed in hell as if delivered there.”