"Selling poison, selling weapons, selling living beings, selling alcohol, selling meat, and, without having inspected (first), pounding sesame and mustard seed (and so on) is wrong livelihood, abstaining from it is right livelihood."
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Arthaviniścaya Sūtra, as translated by Bhikkhu Ānandajoti (2016)
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