{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.117/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.117","id":"suttacentral_an3.117","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.117/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are three failures. What three? Failure in ethics, mind, and view. And what is failure in ethics? It\u2019s when someone kills living creatures, steals, commits sexual misconduct, and uses speech that\u2019s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. This is called \u2018failure in ethics\u2019. And what is failure in mind? It\u2019s when someone is covetous and malicious. This is called \u2018failure in mind\u2019. And what is failure in view? It\u2019s when someone has wrong view, a distorted perspective, such as: \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 This is called \u2018failure in view\u2019. Some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell because of failure in ethics, mind, or view. These are the three failures. There are three accomplishments. What three? Accomplishment in ethics, mind, and view. And what is accomplishment in ethics? It\u2019s when someone doesn\u2019t kill living creatures, steal, commit sexual misconduct, or use speech that\u2019s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. This is called accomplishment in ethics. And what is accomplishment in mind? It\u2019s when someone is content and kind-hearted. This is called accomplishment in mind. And what is accomplishment in view? It\u2019s when someone has right view, an undistorted perspective, such as: \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 This is called accomplishment in view. Some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm because of accomplishment in ethics, mind, or view. These are the three accomplishments.\u201d","title":"Failures and Accomplishments","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":361}