Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

1: The Book of the Ones

1. Obsession of the Mind - 284–286

1(284) "It is impossible and inconceivable, bhikkhus, that a wished for, desired, agreeable result could be produced from bodily misconduct … (285) … that a wished for, desired, agreeable result could be produced from verbal misconduct … (286) … that a wished for, desired, agreeable result could be produced from mental misconduct; there is no such possibility. But it is possible that an unwished for, undesired, disagreeable result might be produced (from bodily misconduct … from verbal misconduct … ) from mental misconduct; there is such a possibility."

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