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an.10.221 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Untitled Discourse on Ten Qualities

“Someone with ten qualities is cast down to hell.
What ten?
They kill living creatures, steal, and commit sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, divisive, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re covetous, malicious, with wrong view.
Someone with these ten qualities is cast down to hell.
Someone with ten qualities is raised up to heaven.
What ten?
They don’t kill living creatures, steal, or commit sexual misconduct. They don’t use speech that’s false, divisive, harsh, or nonsensical. They’re contented, kind-hearted, with right view.
Someone with these ten qualities is raised up to heaven.”