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## Time-Series-Based-Authority 10.
**331**
A tiger is a being that...
**920**
Meaning: If a lion or tiger eats one, two, or three deer, it is called a low sinner. If a monk kills living beings through lower karma and eats them, it is a great sin. **920**
...at the beginning, the killing of living beings is the killing of oneself. The self should not be killed, therefore the killing of living beings should be abandoned. **921**
Meaning: In actions like cooking, there is the killing of living beings, and by killing living beings, there is the killing of the self. Therefore, it is not right to kill the self, so it is appropriate to abandon the killing of living beings. **921**
...who sits in the posture of stillness, silence, and heroism, with the fourth and sixth [elements], and eats with lower karma, all his practices are useless. **922**
Meaning: A monk who sits in the posture of stillness, silence, and heroism, during the time of fasting, and eats with lower karma, all his practices are useless. **922**
...what will the forest dwelling, the empty house, or the tree root do? He eats with lower karma, all his practices are useless. **923**
Meaning: What will the forest dwelling, the empty house, or the tree root do for that monk? He eats with lower karma, all his practices are useless. **923**