The Book of the Ones Chapter Three Lying This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. “Mendicants, 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.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: “When a personage, spurning the hereafter, transgresses in just one thing— lying— there is no evil they would not do.” This too is a matter that was spoken by the Bless