mn136:8.1 “Ānanda, these four individuals are found in the world.
mn136:8.2 What four?
mn136:8.3 It’s when an individual here kills living creatures, steals, and commits sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re covetous, malicious, and have wrong view.
mn136:8.4 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
mn136:8.5 But some other individual here kills living creatures, steals, and commits sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re covetous, malicious, and have wrong view.
mn136:8.6 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
mn136:8.7 But some other individual here refrains from killing living creatures, stealing, sexual misconduct, or using speech that’s false, divisive, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re contented, kind-hearted, with right view.
mn136:8.8 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
mn136:8.9 But some other individual here refrains from killing living creatures, stealing, sexual misconduct, or using speech that’s false, divisive, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re contented, kind-hearted, with right view.
mn136:8.10 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.