Suffering

“Mendicants, when a mendicant has five qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth.

What five?

It’s when a mendicant is faithless, shameless, imprudent, lazy, and witless.

When a mendicant possesses these five qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth.

When a mendicant has five qualities they live happily in this very life—without distress, distress, or fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.

What five?

It’s when a mendicant is faithful, conscientious, prudent, energetic, and wise.

When a mendicant possesses these five qualities they live happily in this very life—without distress, anguish, or fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.”