Sevitabbāsevitabbasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 14 · Section 201

[201] "Of what kind, venerable sir, is the bodily conduct (kāyasamācāra) through the cultivation of which unwholesome states (akusalā dhammā) increase and wholesome states (kusalā dhammā) decline? Here, venerable sir, a certain person is one who destroys life (pāṇātipātī): he is cruel, bloody-handed, given to blows and slaughter, merciless towards living beings. Further, he is one who takes what is not given (adinnādāyī): whatever wealth and property of another, whether situated in the village or situated in the wilderness, that which is not given he takes by way of theft. Further, he is one who conducts himself wrongly in sensual pleasures (kāmesu micchācārī): with those women who are protected by their mother, protected by their father, protected by mother and father, protected by their brother, protected by their sister, protected by their relatives, who have a husband, who are protected under threat of punishment, or even, at the least, one garlanded with the garland of betrothal — with such women he is one who transgresses. Venerable sir, when one cultivates bodily conduct of such a kind, unwholesome states increase and wholesome states decline."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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