an.5.3 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Suffering

“Mendicants, when a mendicant has five qualities they live unhappily in the present 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 has these five qualities they live unhappily in the present 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 the present life—without distress, anguish, 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 has these five qualities they live happily in the present life—without distress, anguish, or fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.”