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WHAT IS DHAMMA ?
- And of what sort is failure in mind ?
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A certain one is covetous and malevolent of heart. This is called “failure in mind.”
And of what sort is failure in view ?
Herein a certain one holds the depraved, the perverse view that there is no (virtue in) almsgiving, in sacrifice, in offerings : that there is no fruit, no result of good and evil deeds: that this world is not, that there is no world beyond: that there is no mother, no father, no beings of spontaneous birth : that in the world are no recluses and Brahmins who have won the summit, who have won perfection, who of themselves by their own intuitional powers have realized the world beyond and can proclaim it. This, monks, is called “failure in view.”
Monks, it is due to failure in morals, failure in mind and in view that beings, when body breaks up after death, are reborn in the Waste, the Way of Woe, in the Downfall, in Purgatory. Such are the three failures.
Monks, there are these three successes. What three ? Success in morals, success in mind, success in view.
Now of what sort is success in morals ?
A certain one abstains from taking life and the rest . . . from bitter speech and idle babbling. This is called “success in morals.”
And of what sort is success in mind ?
Herein a certain one is not covetous or malevolent of heart. This is called “success in mind.”
And of what sort is success in view ?
Herein a certain one has right view: he holds with certainty that there is (virtue in) almsgiving, in sacrifice, in offerings: that there is fruit and result of good and evil deeds: that this world is, that there is a world beyond : that mother, father and beings of spontaneous birth do exist: that in the world there are recluses and Brahmins who have realized the world beyond and can proclaim it. This, monks, is called “success in view.”
It is owing to success in these three things
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