Sevitabbāsevitabbasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 14 · Section 221

[221] "Good, good, Sāriputta! It is good, Sāriputta, that you understand in this way the detailed meaning of this statement of mine, spoken in brief without the meaning being analyzed in detail. "'Bhikkhus, I say that bodily conduct is of two kinds: that which should be cultivated and that which should not be cultivated; and each of these is bodily conduct' — so indeed this was said by me. And with reference to what was it said? Sāriputta, such bodily conduct as, when one cultivates it, unwholesome states increase and wholesome states decline — such bodily conduct should not be cultivated. But such bodily conduct as, when one cultivates it, unwholesome states decline and wholesome states increase — such bodily conduct should be cultivated."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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