Connected Discourses 30.3

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1. Linked Discourses 30.3
2. 1. Phoenixes
3. Both Kinds of Deeds
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:
6. “Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the egg-born phoenixes?”
7. “Mendicant, it’s when someone does both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind.
8. And they’ve heard:
9. ‘The egg-born phoenixes are long-lived, beautiful, and very happy.’
10. They think:
11. ‘If only, when my body breaks up, after death, I would be reborn in the company of the egg-born phoenixes!’
12. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of the egg-born phoenixes.
13. This is the cause, this is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the egg-born phoenixes.”