Numbered Discourses 10.113

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1. Numbered Discourses 10.113
2. 12. The Ceremony of Descent
3. Bad Principles (1st)
4. “Mendicants, you should know bad principles with bad results.
5. And you should know good principles with good results.
6. Knowing these things, your practice should follow the good principles with good results.
7. And what are bad principles with bad results?
8. Wrong view, wrong thought, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong immersion, wrong knowledge, and wrong freedom.
9. These are called bad principles with bad results.
10. And what are good principles with good results?
11. Right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom.
12. These are called good principles with good results.
13. ‘You should know bad principles with bad results.
14. And you should know good principles with good results.
15. Knowing these things, your practice should follow the good principles with good results.’
16. That’s what I said, and this is why I said it.”