{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an2.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an2.1","id":"suttacentral_an2.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an2.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"1. Faults So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cThere are, mendicants, these two faults. What two? The fault apparent in this life, and the fault to do with lives to come. What is the fault apparent in this life? It\u2019s when someone sees that kings have arrested a bandit, a criminal, and subjected them to various punishments\u2014 whipping, caning, and clubbing; cutting off hands or feet, or both; cutting off ears or nose, or both; the \u2018porridge pot\u2019, the \u2018shell-shave\u2019, the \u2018R\u0101hu\u2019s mouth\u2019, the \u2018garland of fire\u2019, the \u2018burning hand\u2019, the \u2018bulrush twist\u2019, the \u2018bark dress\u2019, the \u2018antelope\u2019, the \u2018meat hook\u2019, the \u2018coins\u2019, the \u2018caustic pickle\u2019, the \u2018twisting bar\u2019, the \u2018straw mat\u2019; being splashed with hot oil, being fed to the hounds, being impaled alive, and being beheaded. It occurs to them: \u2018If I were to commit the kinds of bad deeds for which the kings arrested that bandit, that criminal, the rulers would arrest me and subject me to the same punishments.\u2019 Afraid of the fault apparent in this life, they do not steal the belongings of others. This is called the fault apparent in this life. What is the fault to do with lives to come? It\u2019s when someone reflects: \u2018Bad conduct of body, speech, or mind has a bad, painful result in the next life. If I conduct myself badly, then, when my body breaks up, after death, won\u2019t I be reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell?\u2019 Afraid of the fault to do with lives to come, they give up bad conduct by way of body, speech, and mind, and develop good conduct by way of body, speech, and mind, keeping themselves pure. This is called the fault to do with lives to come. These are the two faults. So you should train like this: \u2018We will fear the fault apparent in this life, and we will fear the fault to do with lives to come. We will fear faults, seeing the danger in faults.\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train. If you fear faults, seeing the danger in faults, you can expect to be freed from all faults.\u201d","title":"The Chapter on Punishments","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":384}