English translation 3.5.4
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3.5.4 How to Conduct Oneself Correctly in Right Action *
“O’ Cunda, one is made impure in three ways by bodily action, in four ways by speech and in three ways by mental activity!
And how, O’ Cunda, is one made impure in three ways by bodily action? There is the case where a certain person takes life, is cruel, bloody-handed, engaged in killing and slaying, showing no sympathy towards living beings.
He takes what is not given. Going to villages or forests he takes by theft, possessions and things belonging to others that have not been given to him.
He engages in sensual misconduct. He gets physically involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, their clan or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with garlands of flowers by another man.
This is how one is made impure in three ways by bodily action.
“O Cunda, one is made pure in three ways by bodily action, in four ways by speech and in three ways by mental activity!
And how, O’ Cunda, is one made pure in three ways by bodily action?
There is the case where a certain person, abandoning killing, he abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his stick and his sword laid down, modest, showing sympathy for the welfare towards all living beings he dwells in compassion.
Abandoning the taking of what is not given, he abstains from taking what is not given. He does not take by theft, going in villages or forests, possessions or things belonging to others that have not been given by them.
Abandoning sensual misconduct, he abstains from sensual misconduct. He does not get physically involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, their clan, or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with garlands of flowers by another man.
This is how one is made pure in three ways by bodily action.
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* Cundasuttaṃ cont.
And how, O’ Cunda, is one made impure in three ways by bodily action? There is the case where a certain person takes life, is cruel, bloody-handed, engaged in killing and slaying, showing no sympathy towards living beings.
He takes what is not given. Going to villages or forests he takes by theft, possessions and things belonging to others that have not been given to him.
He engages in sensual misconduct. He gets physically involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, their clan or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with garlands of flowers by another man.
This is how one is made impure in three ways by bodily action.
“O Cunda, one is made pure in three ways by bodily action, in four ways by speech and in three ways by mental activity!
And how, O’ Cunda, is one made pure in three ways by bodily action?
There is the case where a certain person, abandoning killing, he abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his stick and his sword laid down, modest, showing sympathy for the welfare towards all living beings he dwells in compassion.
Abandoning the taking of what is not given, he abstains from taking what is not given. He does not take by theft, going in villages or forests, possessions or things belonging to others that have not been given by them.
Abandoning sensual misconduct, he abstains from sensual misconduct. He does not get physically involved with those who are protected by their mothers, their fathers, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their relatives, their clan, or their Dhamma; those with husbands, those who entail punishments, or even those crowned with garlands of flowers by another man.
This is how one is made pure in three ways by bodily action.
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* Cundasuttaṃ cont.
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