無辜的小鬼（中英）　宣化上人主講

殺人償命，欠債還錢

Those who Kill will Repay with Life;
Those who Owe Money will Repay with Money.

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A Talk Given by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

現在人為什麼生一些奇怪的病症？就是從殺生來的。
Why do people get strange diseases nowadays? These diseases come from the act of killing.

世界上最大的仇怨，莫過於殺生。所謂「殺人償命，欠債還錢。」你殺人之父兄，人必殺你的父兄。這樣互相殘殺，永無止境。就因為殺生太多的緣故，所以果報來得很快，所謂「現世現報。」
   　    
The deepest animosity in the world is created by killing. It is said, “Those who kill will repay with life, those who owe money will repay with money.” If you kill other people's father or brother, your father or brother will in turn be killed by others. In this way, people cruelly kill each other without end. It is because of too much killing that one's retribution ripens in a short period of time, and thus the saying, “One receives his retribution in the present life.”　
   　    
例如墮胎，這比土匪都厲害。你想一想，這個生命還沒長成，你就把他殺了！這一些個小鬼在那兒怨天尤人，那股怨氣、那股仇恨的心比什麼都大，比原子彈、氫氣彈都毒，他一定要報仇雪恨，所以現在這個世界上不是老鬼多，而是小鬼多，這一些沒長成人的小鬼，到處皆是。有人到有病的時候，才知道為什麼有病呢？就因為冤仇太多了。好像生癌病的人，多數都是因為殺生太多了，所以這個仇恨不能解開，就生癌病了……
   　    
Let's take abortion for instance, which is fiercer than highway robbery. Think about it, by having an abortion, you are terminating a life before his or her body can completely take shape! With deepest enmity and greatest resentment, these little ghosts of aborted fetuses “complain about the heavens and blame other people.” Their hatred is more powerful and poisonous than atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs; they are determined to seek revenge. Given the prevalence of abortion nowadays, these little ghosts of unborn babies are everywhere, outnumbering the old ghosts in the world. Some people don’t know why they are sick. Actually, they are sick because they have caused too much animosities and resentments. For example, in most cases, people have cancer because they have taken many lives. Being unable to appease the animosities from living beings they have killed, these individuals end up with cancer....