{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.211/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.211","id":"suttacentral_an10.211","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.211/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cSomeone with ten qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there. What ten? It\u2019s when someone kills living creatures. They\u2019re violent, bloody-handed, a hardened killer, merciless to all living beings. They steal. With the intention to commit theft, they take the wealth or belongings of others from village or wilderness. They commit sexual misconduct. They have relations with women who have their mother, father, both mother and father, brother, sister, relatives, or clan as guardian. They have relations with a woman who is protected on principle, or who has a husband, or whose violation is punishable by law, or even one who has been garlanded as a token of betrothal. They lie. They\u2019re summoned to a council, an assembly, a family meeting, a guild, or to the royal court, and asked to bear witness: \u2018Please, my man, say what you know.\u2019 Not knowing, they say \u2018I know.\u2019 Knowing, they say \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 Not seeing, they say \u2018I see.\u2019 And seeing, they say \u2018I don\u2019t see.\u2019 So they deliberately lie for the sake of themselves or another, or for some trivial worldly reason. They backbite. They repeat in one place what they heard in another so as to divide people against each other. And so they divide those who are harmonious, supporting division, delighting in division, loving division, speaking words that promote division. They speak harshly. They use the kinds of words that are cruel, nasty, hurtful, offensive, bordering on anger, not leading to immersion. They talk nonsense. Their speech is untimely, and is neither factual nor beneficial. It has nothing to do with the teaching or the training. Their words have no value, and are untimely, unreasonable, rambling, and pointless. They\u2019re covetous. They covet the wealth and belongings of others: \u2018Oh, if only their belongings were mine!\u2019 They have ill will and malicious intentions: \u2018May these sentient beings be killed, slaughtered, slain, destroyed, or annihilated!\u2019 They have wrong view. Their perspective is distorted: \u2018There\u2019s no meaning in giving, sacrifice, or offerings. There\u2019s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds. There\u2019s no afterlife. There\u2019s no such thing as mother and father, or beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there\u2019s no ascetic or brahmin who is rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describes the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.\u2019 Someone with these ten qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there. Someone with ten qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there. What ten? It\u2019s when someone gives up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. They\u2019re scrupulous and kind, living full of sympathy for all living beings. They give up stealing. They don\u2019t, with the intention to commit theft, take the wealth or belongings of others from village or wilderness. They give up sexual misconduct. They don\u2019t have relations with women who have their mother, father, both mother and father, brother, sister, relatives, or clan as guardian. They don\u2019t have relations with a woman who is protected on principle, or who has a husband, or whose violation is punishable by law, or even one who has been garlanded as a token of betrothal. They give up lying. They\u2019re summoned to a council, an assembly, a family meeting, a guild, or to the royal court, and asked to bear witness: \u2018Please, my man, say what you know.\u2019 Not knowing, they say \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 Knowing, they say \u2018I know.\u2019 Not seeing, they say \u2018I don\u2019t see.\u2019 And seeing, they say \u2018I see.\u2019 So they don\u2019t deliberately lie for the sake of themselves or another, or for some trivial worldly reason. They give up backbiting. They don\u2019t repeat in one place what they heard in another so as to divide people against each other. Instead, they reconcile those who are divided and support those who are united, delighting in harmony, loving harmony, speaking words that promote harmony. They give up harsh speech. They speak in a way that\u2019s mellow, pleasing to the ear, endearing, going to the heart, polite, and likable and agreeable to the people. They give up talking nonsense. Their words are timely, true, and meaningful, in line with the teaching and training. They say things at the right time which are valuable, reasonable, succinct, and beneficial. They\u2019re content. They don\u2019t covet the wealth and belongings of others: \u2018Oh, if only their belongings were mine!\u2019 They have a kind heart and loving intentions: \u2018May these sentient beings live free of enmity and ill will, untroubled and happy!\u2019 They have right view, an undistorted perspective: \u2018There is meaning in giving, sacrifice, and offerings. There are fruits and results of good and bad deeds. There is an afterlife. There are such things as mother and father, and beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there are ascetics and brahmins who are rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describe the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.\u2019 Someone with these ten qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.\u201d","title":"Heaven and Hell (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":829}