{"id":"an3.119","title":"Action","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.119","title":"Action","units":[{"id":"an3.119:0","sourceIds":["an3.119:0.1","an3.119:0.2","an3.119:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.119\n12. Āpāyikavagga\nKammantasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.119\n12. Bound for Loss\nAction"}},{"id":"an3.119:1","sourceIds":["an3.119:1.1","an3.119:1.2","an3.119:1.3","an3.119:1.4","an3.119:1.5","an3.119:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vipattiyo.\nKatamā tisso?\nKammantavipatti, ājīvavipatti, diṭṭhivipatti.\nKatamā ca, bhikkhave, kammantavipatti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco pāṇātipātī hoti …pe… samphappalāpī hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kammantavipatti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are three failures.\nWhat three?\nFailure in action, livelihood, and view.\nAnd what is failure in action?\nIt’s when someone kills living creatures, steals, commits sexual misconduct, and uses speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical.\nThis is called ‘failure in action’."}},{"id":"an3.119:2","sourceIds":["an3.119:2.1","an3.119:2.2","an3.119:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, ājīvavipatti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchāājīvo hoti, micchāājīvena jīvikaṁ kappeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ājīvavipatti.","en":"And what is failure in livelihood?\nIt’s when a noble disciple has wrong livelihood and earns a living by wrong livelihood.\nThis is called ‘failure in livelihood’."}},{"id":"an3.119:3","sourceIds":["an3.119:3.1","an3.119:3.2","an3.119:3.3","an3.119:3.4","an3.119:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, diṭṭhivipatti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchādiṭṭhiko hoti viparītadassano:\n‘natthi dinnaṁ, natthi yiṭṭhaṁ …pe… ye imañca lokaṁ parañca lokaṁ sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā pavedentī’ti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, diṭṭhivipatti.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vipattiyoti.","en":"And what is failure in view?\nIt’s when someone has wrong view, a distorted perspective, such as:\n‘There’s no meaning in giving, sacrifice, or offerings. There’s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds. There’s no afterlife. There’s no such thing as mother and father, or beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there’s no ascetic or brahmin who is rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describes the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.’\nThis is called ‘failure in view’.\nThese are the three failures."}},{"id":"an3.119:4","sourceIds":["an3.119:4.1","an3.119:4.2","an3.119:4.3","an3.119:4.4","an3.119:4.5","an3.119:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tisso imā, bhikkhave, sampadā.\nKatamā tisso?\nKammantasampadā, ājīvasampadā, diṭṭhisampadā.\nKatamā ca, bhikkhave, kammantasampadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco pāṇātipātā paṭivirato hoti …pe… samphappalāpā paṭivirato hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kammantasampadā.","en":"There are three accomplishments.\nWhat three?\nAccomplishment in action, livelihood, and view.\nAnd what is accomplishment in action?\nIt’s when someone doesn’t kill living creatures, steal, commit sexual misconduct, or use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical.\nThis is called ‘accomplishment in action’."}},{"id":"an3.119:5","sourceIds":["an3.119:5.1","an3.119:5.2","an3.119:5.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, ājīvasampadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammāājīvo hoti, sammāājīvena jīvikaṁ kappeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ājīvasampadā.","en":"And what is accomplishment in livelihood?\nIt’s when a noble disciple has right livelihood and earns a living by right livelihood.\nThis is called ‘accomplishment in livelihood’."}},{"id":"an3.119:6","sourceIds":["an3.119:6.1","an3.119:6.2","an3.119:6.3","an3.119:6.4","an3.119:6.5","an3.119:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, diṭṭhisampadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammādiṭṭhiko hoti aviparītadassano:\n‘atthi dinnaṁ, atthi yiṭṭhaṁ …pe… ye imañca lokaṁ parañca lokaṁ sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā pavedentī’ti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, diṭṭhisampadā.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, tisso sampadā”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"And what is accomplishment in view?\nIt’s when someone has right view, an undistorted perspective, such as:\n‘There 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.’\nThis is called ‘accomplishment in view’.\nThese are the three accomplishments.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.119/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}