Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 5.286

  1. Abbreviated Texts on Training Rules

A Monk

“Mendicants, a monk with five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.

What five?

He kills living creatures, steals, has sex, lies, and consumes beer, wine, and liquor intoxicants.

A monk with these five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.

A monk with five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.

What five?

He doesn’t kill living creatures, steal, have sex, lie, or consume beer, wine, and liquor intoxicants.

A monk with these five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”