[5] Yinlü Wuqing, vol. 2, ch. 19, especially its encouragement to those who do not yet have sufficient conditions for keeping the precepts: repentance, aspiration, remembrance of the Buddha, vegetarian practice and good deeds.
[6] Yinlü Wuqing, vol. 1, ch. 31, on the maker who must remain in hell until the sexual materials he produced have completely disappeared from the human world. The example of correcting a circulating allegation explains what addressing continuing harm can involve; it is not another reported case from the book.
[7] Saṃyutta Nikāya 36.21, the Sivaka Sutta, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, distinguishes several causes of felt experience and rejects the assertion that all feeling is entirely caused by what was done before. See also Bhikkhu Anālayo, ‘Rebirth and the West,’ Insight Journal 45 (2019): 55–64, p. 57, on causation and the compassionate response to another person's misfortune. These sources do not authorise a reconstruction of an individual's supposed past-life wrongdoing. [Source 1](https://origin.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN36_21.html) [Source 2](https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/rebirthwest.pdf)
[8] Yinlü Wuqing, Dao Lan's postscript, ‘The Law Is Unrelenting and the Buddha Is Compassionate,’ especially its account of reform, nonrepetition and helping others change. The later City God conversation ends with gradual improvement through sustained practice.