Precepts

Bhikkhus, there are four actions by me known, realized and declared. What four?

Bhikkhus, there are dark actions with dark results, bright actions with bright results, there are dark and bright actions with dark and bright results and there are neither dark nor bright actions with neither dark nor bright results, which conduce to the destruction of actions.

Bhikkhus, what are dark actions with dark results?

Here, bhikkhus, a certain one destroys the life of his mother, destroys the life of his father, destroys the life of a noble one, with an angry mind causes the blood of the Thus Gone to spill and causes a split in the Community.

Bhikkhus, these are dark actions with dark results.

Bhikkhus, what are bright actions with bright results?

Here, bhikkhus, a certain one abstains from destroying the life of living things, taking the not given, misbehaving in sexual conduct, telling lies, slandering, rough speech, frivolous speech, coveting, bearing an angry mind and maintains right view.

Bhikkhus, these are bright actions with bright results.

Bhikkhus, what are dark and bright actions with dark and bright results?

Here, bhikkhus, a certain one puts forth internal troubled and untroubled bodily activity, internal troubled and untroubled verbal activity and internal troubled and untroubled mental activity and is born to a world of troubles and non troubles, and feels troubled and untroubled feelings. There he feels a mixture of unpleasant and pleasant feelings, like what beings born in the human world feel, sometimes godly and sometimes hellish. Bhikkhus, these are dark and bright actions with dark and bright results.

Bhikkhus, what are neither dark nor bright actions with neither dark nor bright results which conduces to the destruction of actions?

Here, bhikkhus, a certain one makes an intention to put an end to dark actions with dark results. Makes an intention to put an end to bright actions with bright results. Makes an intention to put an end to dark and biright actions with dark and bright results, which conduces to the destruction of actions Bhikkhus, these are the four actions by me known, realized and declared.