Bad Conduct (ITI64)

So It Was Said 64

The Book of the Threes

Chapter Two

Bad Conduct

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

“Mendicants, there are these three kinds of bad conduct.

What three?

Bad conduct by way of body, speech, and mind.

These are the three kinds of bad conduct.”

The Buddha spoke this matter.

On this it is said:

“Having done bad things

by way of body,

speech, and mind,

and whatever else is corrupt;

not having done good deeds,

and having done many bad,

when their body breaks up, that witless person

is reborn in hell.”

This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.