The Noble Disciples Will Not Transgress the Training Guidelines Even for Life’s Sake

Just as, Pahārāda, the great ocean is stable and does not overflow its boundaries, so too, when I have prescribed a training guideline for the disciples, they will not do wrong even for life’s sake.

This is the second astounding and amazing quality that the Monks see in these Teachings and discipline because of which they are pleased in it.

(Here quoted only one of eight astounding and amazing qualities that the Monks see in these Teachings and discipline.)

(Reference: AN 8.19)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares how Students see the outstanding and amazing quality of these Teachings and are so pleased with these Teachings that they will not make a decision to have wrongdoing even if their life depended on doing wrong.

In other words, a Practitioner who is deeply practicing these Teachings would not steal or lie, even if their life depended on theft or lying. They would know, stealing and lying does not lead to any wholesome result and even faced with death, they would not steal or lie.