{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.171/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.171","id":"suttacentral_an10.171","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.171/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, you should know bad principles with bad results. And you should know good principles with good results. Knowing these things, your practice should follow the good principles with good results. And what are bad principles with bad results? Killing living creatures, stealing, and sexual misconduct; speech that\u2019s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical; covetousness, ill will, and wrong view. These are called bad principles with bad results. And what are good principles with good results? Refraining from killing living creatures, stealing, and sexual misconduct; refraining from speech that\u2019s false, divisive, harsh, or nonsensical; contentment, good will, and right view. These are called good principles with good results. \u2018You should know bad principles with bad results. And you should know good principles with good results. Knowing these things, your practice should follow the good principles with good results.\u2019 That\u2019s what I said, and this is why I said it.\u201d","title":"Bad Principles (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":148}