{"id":"an4.207","title":"Bad Character (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.207","title":"Bad Character (1st)","units":[{"id":"an4.207:0","sourceIds":["an4.207:0.1","an4.207:0.2","an4.207:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.207\n21. Sappurisavagga\nPaṭhamapāpadhammasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.207\n21. A True Person\nBad Character (1st)"}},{"id":"an4.207:1","sourceIds":["an4.207:1.1","an4.207:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pāpañca vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi, pāpena pāpatarañca;\nkalyāṇañca, kalyāṇena kalyāṇatarañca. Taṁ suṇātha …pe….","en":"“Mendicants, I will teach you who’s bad and who’s worse,\nwho’s good and who’s better."}},{"id":"an4.207:2","sourceIds":["an4.207:2.1","an4.207:2.2","an4.207:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, pāpo?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco pāṇātipātī hoti …pe… micchādiṭṭhiko hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pāpo.","en":"And who’s bad?\nIt’s someone who kills living creatures, steals, and commits sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re covetous, malicious, with wrong view.\nThis is called bad."}},{"id":"an4.207:3","sourceIds":["an4.207:3.1","an4.207:3.2","an4.207:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, pāpena pāpataro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco attanā ca pāṇātipātī hoti, parañca pāṇātipāte samādapeti …pe… attanā ca micchādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca micchādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pāpena pāpataro.","en":"And who’s worse?\nIt’s someone who kills living creatures, steals, and commits sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. They’re covetous, malicious, with wrong view. And they encourage others to do these things.\nThis is called worse."}},{"id":"an4.207:4","sourceIds":["an4.207:4.1","an4.207:4.2","an4.207:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kalyāṇo?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco pāṇātipātā paṭivirato hoti …pe… sammādiṭṭhiko hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kalyāṇo.","en":"And who’s good?\nIt’s someone who doesn’t kill living creatures, steal, or commit sexual misconduct. They don’t use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re contented, kind-hearted, with right view.\nThis is called good."}},{"id":"an4.207:5","sourceIds":["an4.207:5.1","an4.207:5.2","an4.207:5.3","an4.207:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kalyāṇena kalyāṇataro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco attanā ca pāṇātipātā paṭivirato hoti, parañca pāṇātipātā veramaṇiyā samādapeti …pe… attanā ca sammādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca sammādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, kalyāṇena kalyāṇataro”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"And who’s better?\nIt’s someone who doesn’t kill living creatures, steal, or commit sexual misconduct. They don’t use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. They’re contented, kind-hearted, with right view. And they encourage others to do these things.\nThis is called better.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.207/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}