Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

3: The Book of the Threes

153. Maimed (4)

1"Bhikkhus, possessing three qualities … Impure bodily action, impure verbal action, and impure mental action ….

2"Bhikkhus, possessing three qualities … Pure bodily action, pure verbal action, and pure mental action. Possessing these three qualities, the wise, competent, good person preserves himself unmaimed and uninjured; he is blameless and beyond reproach by the wise; and he generates much merit."

1"Tīhi, bhikkhave … pe … asucinā kāyakammena, asucinā vacīkammena, asucinā manokammena … pe ….

2Tīhi, bhikkhave … pe … sucinā kāyakammena, sucinā vacīkammena, sucinā manokammena – imehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato paṇḍito viyatto sappuriso akkhataṁ anupahataṁ attānaṁ pariharati, anavajjo ca hoti ananuvajjo ca viññūnaṁ, bahuñca puññaṁ pasavatī"ti.


Aṭṭhamaṁ.

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