Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 10.194

  1. The Noble Path

Principles That Should Be Cultivated

“I will teach you the principle to cultivate and the principle not to cultivate. …

And what is the principle not to cultivate?

Killing living creatures …

wrong view.

This is called the principle not to cultivate.

And what is the principle to cultivate?

Not killing living creatures …

right view.

This is called the principle to cultivate.”