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Are you impure?

11/20/2017

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                                NAMO BUDDAYA !.
Namo  Tassa  Bhagavato  Arahato  Samma  Sambuddhassa !
Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Supremely Enlightened One !

THE  NUMARICAL  DISCOURSES  OF  THE  BUDDHA.
                                                 Seevathikaya sutta - Discourses of A charnel ground (AN05- 249)
 
"Bhikkhus, there are these five dangers in a charnel ground(a land where corpses were discarded in the ancient time) . What five?
 It is impure, foul-smelling, dangerous, the abode of wild spirits, a place where many people weep.
 These are the five dangers in a charnel ground. So too, there are these five dangers in a person who is similar to a charnel ground. What five? 
  1. "Here, some person engages in impure bodily, verbal, and mental action. This, I say, is how he is impure. Just as that charnel ground is impure, I say this person is similarly so.

      2. "Since he engages in impure bodily, verbal, and mental action, he acquires a bad reputation. This, I say, is how he is foul-smelling. Just as that charnel ground is foul-smelling, I say this person is similarly so.
      3.  "Since he engages in impure bodily, verbal, and mental action, his well-behaved fellow monks avoid him from afar. This, I say, is how he is regarded as dangerous. Just as that charnel ground is regarded as dangerous, I say this person is similarly so.
       4.  "Engaging in impure bodily, verbal, and mental action, he dwells together with persons similar to himself. This, I say, is how he is an abode of wild persons. Just as that charnel ground is an abode of wild spirits, I say this person is similarly so.     
      5. "Having seen him engaging in impure bodily, verbal, and mental action, his well-behaved fellow monks lodge complaints about him, saying: ‘Oh, what misery it is for us to live together with such persons!’ This, I say, is how there is weeping over him. Just as that charnel ground is a place where many people weep, I say this person is similarly so.
        "These, bhikkhus, are the five dangers in a person who is like a charnel ground."
  (The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha – Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi,-Wisdom publications.)
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Unwholesome Actions
Bodily Actions
  1. Killing living beings
  2. Stealing or cheating
  3. Being involved with wrong doing with regards to persons or things dear to others.
Verbal Actions
  1. False speech
  2. Divisive or hateful speech
  3. Harsh speech
  4. Useless speech
 
 Mental Actions
  1. Greediness
This is a person who is having full of desires. He has a strong greed to the wealth and properties of others. Always he wishes that may what belong to others be mine.
      2.  Ill-will or Anger
He has angry and hateful thoughts.
      3.  Wrong view or Wrong Understanding 
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