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Lesson 3.5.4 Cundasuttaṃ, Part Two – How to Conduct Oneself Correctly in Right Action
This lesson's Cundasutta highlights the defiling and purifying effects of unwholesome and wholesome actions. In this sutta, the Buddha responds to a question from Sakka, the king of the gods, by emphasising that one should train oneself in considering the possible twofold consequences of one’s physical and verbal actions: “King of devas, I proclaim bodily conduct (and verbal conduct) is of two kinds, one should be cultivated and one should not to be cultivated. In this regard, if one were to recognize a kind of conduct that, by practicing it, unwholesome qualities increase and wholesome qualities diminish — that kind of conduct should not be cultivated. But if one were to recognize a kind of conduct that, by practicing it, unwholesome qualities decline and wholesome qualities increase then that kind of bodily conduct should be cultivated.”