Actions

Bhikkhus, these three are the moral faliures. What three?

Failing in activity, failing in livelihood and failing to rectify the view.

Bhikkhus, what is the failing in activity?

Here a certain one destroys living things, takes the not given, misbehaves in sexual desires, tells lies, slanders, talks roughly and talks frivolously. Bhikkhus, this is failing in activity.

Bhikkhus, what is failing in livelihood?

Here bhikkhus a certain one lives making t he wrong livelihood . Bhikkhus, this is failing in livelihood.

Bhikkhus, what is failing to receitfy the view?

Here bhikkhus, a certain one is with wrong view, a reversed vision; there are no results for a gift, offering or a sacrifice, there are no results for good and evil actions, there is no this world nor another world, there is no mother, no father. There are no spontaneously arisen beings, neither are there recluses and brahmins who have come to the right path and method and by themselves realizing this world and the other world declare it. Bhikkhus, this is failing to rectify the view.

Bhikkhus, as a result of failing in activity sentient beings after death are born in loss, in a bad state, in decrease in hell, so also as a result of failing in a livelihood and failing to rectify the view. Bhikkhus, these are the three moral faliures.

Bhikkhus, these three are the moral accomplishments. What three?

Success in activity, succeeding in a livelihood and succeeding to rectify the view.

Bhikkhus, what is success in activity?

Here a certain one does not destroy living things, does not take the not given, does not misbehave in sexual desires, does not tell lies, does not slander, does not talk roughly and does not talk frivolously. Bhikkhus, this is success in activity.

Bhikkhus, what is succeeding in a livelihood?

Here bhikkhus a certain one follows the right livelihood to make a living. Bhikkhus, this is success in a livelihood.

Bhikkhus, what is succeeding to receitfy the view?

Here bhikkhus, a certain one is with right view, not with reversed vision; there are results for a gift, offering or a sacrifice, there are results for good and evil actions, there is this world and the other world, there is mother, father. There are spontaneously arisen beings, and there are recluses and brahmins who have come to the right path and method and by themselves realizing this world and the other world declare it. Bhikkhus, this is succeeding to rectify the view.