Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

3: The Book of the Threes

149. Impure

1"Bhikkhus, possessing three qualities, one is deposited in hell as if brought there. What three? Impure bodily action, impure verbal action, and impure mental action. Possessing these three qualities, one is deposited in hell as if brought there.

2"Possessing three qualities, one is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What three? Pure bodily action, pure verbal action, and pure mental action. Possessing these three qualities, one is deposited in heaven as if brought there."

1"Tīhi, bhikkhave … pe … asucinā kāyakammena, asucinā vacīkammena, asucinā manokammena – imehi kho … pe … evaṁ niraye.

2Tīhi, bhikkhave … pe … sucinā kāyakammena, sucinā vacīkammena, sucinā manokammena – imehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge"ti.


Catutthaṁ.

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