{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.173/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.173","id":"suttacentral_an10.173","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.173/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, you should know bad principles and good principles. And you should know bad results and good results. Knowing these things, your practice should follow the good principles with good results. So what are bad principles? What are good principles? What are bad results? And what are good results? Killing living creatures is a bad principle. Refraining from killing living creatures is a good principle. And the many bad, unskillful qualities produced by killing living creatures are bad results. And the many skillful qualities fully developed because of not killing living creatures are good results. Stealing is a bad principle. Refraining from stealing is a good principle. \u2026 Sexual misconduct is a bad principle. Refraining from sexual misconduct is a good principle. \u2026 Lying is a bad principle. Refraining from lying is a good principle. \u2026 Backbiting is a bad principle. Refraining from divisive speech is a good principle. \u2026 Harsh speech is a bad principle. Refraining from harsh speech is a good principle. \u2026 Talking nonsense is a bad principle. Refraining from talking nonsense is a good principle. \u2026 Covetousness is a bad principle. Contentment is a good principle. \u2026 Ill will is a bad principle. Good will is a good principle. \u2026 Wrong view is a bad principle. Right view is a good principle. And the many bad, unskillful qualities produced by wrong view are bad results. And the many skillful qualities fully developed because of right view are good results. \u2018You should know bad principles and good principles. And you should know bad results and 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 (3rd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":284}