{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti25/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti25","id":"suttacentral_iti25","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti25/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, 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.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cWhen a personage, spurning the hereafter, transgresses in just one thing\u2014 lying\u2014 there is no evil they would not do.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Lying","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":92}