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3.
"When, friends, a noble disciple understands the unwholesome, the root of
the unwholesome, the wholesome, and the root of the wholesome, in that way he is
one of right view, whose view is straight, who has perfect confidence in the
Dhamma, and has arrived at this true Dhamma.
4.
"And what, friends, is the unwholesome, what is the root of the
unwholesome, what is the wholesome, what is the root of the wholesome? Killing
living beings is unwholesome; taking what is not given is unwholesome;
misconduct in sensual pleasures is unwholesome; false speech is unwholesome;
malicious speech is unwholesome; harsh speech is unwholesome; gossip is
unwholesome; covetousness is unwholesome; ill will is unwholesome; wrong view
is unwholesome. This is called the unwholesome.
5.
"And what is the root of the unwholesome? Greed is a root of the
unwholesome; hate is a root of the unwholesome; delusion is a root of the
unwholesome. This is called the root of the unwholesome.
6.
"And what is the wholesome? Abstention from killing living beings is
wholesome; abstention from taking what is not given is wholesome; abstention
from misconduct in sensual pleasures is wholesome; abstention from false speech
is wholesome; abstention from malicious speech is wholesome; abstention from
harsh speech is wholesome; abstention from gossip is wholesome;
non-covetousness is wholesome; non-ill will is wholesome; right view is
wholesome. This is called the wholesome.
7.
"And what is the root of the wholesome? Non-greed is a root of the
wholesome; non-hate is a root of the wholesome; non-delusion is a root of the
wholesome. This is called the root of the wholesome.
8.
"When a noble disciple has thus understood the unwholesome, the root of
the unwholesome, the wholesome, and the root of the wholesome, he entirely
abandons the underlying tendency to lust, he abolishes the underlying tendency
to aversion, he extirpates the underlying tendency to the view and conceit 'I
am,' and by abandoning ignorance and arousing true knowledge he here and now
makes an end of suffering. In that way too a noble disciple is one of right
view, whose view is straight, who has perfect confidence in the Dhamma and has
arrived at this true Dhamma."
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