Avoiding all Harm;
Doing only Good;
Purifying the Mind;
This is the Dhamma
of all the Buddhas!
Dhammapada
183
Morality is the foundation,
the initiator & the origin of all
that is advantageous, good & beautiful...
One Must therefore purify morality.
Theragatha
612
Clean cultivated morality brings all success!
Theragatha
608
Morality is a mighty Power!
Morality is a forceful Weapon!
Morality is a supreme Jewel!
Morality is a marvellous Protection!
Theragatha
614
Harmless towards all living beings,
Speaking only kind & wise truths,
Taking nothing not given,
Enjoying only one's own partner,
Never abusing drinks or drugs.
Having given up & left all behind
These five harmful actions, such
One truly possess right moral...
AN
III 205-6
What, Venerable Sir, is the rewarding advantage of morality?
Freedom from regret, Ananda.
And what is the advantage of freedom from regret?
Joy that produces bliss, Ananda.
Bliss then generates happiness.
Happiness enables concentration.
Concentration facilitates vision and knowledge.
Vision and knowledge brings dispassion & detachment
Dispassion & detachment induces direct knowledge of
Certain & Complete Mental Release, Ananda…
AN
X.1
Intention always comes first.
Intention is of all states the primer.
By intention are all things initiated.
By construction of mind are all phenomena formed.
So - if with good intention one thinks, speaks or acts:
Joy surely follows one like the never-leaving shadow
However !!! - if with evil intention one thinks, speaks or acts:
Pain certainly follows one, like the wheel follows the car.
Dhammapada
1+2
Both the moral & immoral doings;
Both the good & the Bad actions;
That human beings do here;
These are truly their own possession.
These, they take along with them, when they go,
These are what follows them, like the shadow,
that never ever leaves...
So do only what is admirable & advantageous,
as an accumulating investment for the future life.
Good prior doings are the only support & help for
any being, when they rearise in the next world…
SN
III 4
Here and now the good-doer rejoices... Even so
after passing away and re-emerging, the doer of
good, reaps only joy and satisfaction ...
So both here and there, the wise with merit well
done & stored, enjoys the purity of prior actions.
Dhammapada
15
Here and now the bad-doer suffers... Even so
after passing away and re-emerging, the doer of
wrong, reaps only pain and regret ...
So both here and there, the fool with wrong view
& bad behavior, suffers agony as the inevitable
effect of prior evil action.
Dhammapada
16
As the yak-ox watch her tail even onto death,
without breaking through, when caught in thorns,
guard your doings as your own life, by avoiding all
overstepping of this fine line limiting right from wrong.
The
Basket of Behaviour, Cariyapitaka
The Bodhisatta once as the Naga serpent King Sankhapala
guarded his precepts of moral habit, even when tortured:
'Though pierced with sharp bamboo stakes and hacked with
hunting knives. I raged no anger against these hunters, as this
was my final
perfection of Morality!'
Sankhapala
Jataka no. 524
The 5 precious precepts (pańca-sila):
I accept the training rule to avoid killing breathing beings.
I accept the training rule not to take anything, that is not given.
I accept the training rule to abstain from any sexual misconduct.
I accept the training rule to desist from all incorrect speech.
I accept the training rule to shun drinks & drugs causing
carelessness.
These are timeless laws of only Good,
which all the mighty Seers of the past
have fully followed & made their Way!
This Virtue of Morality is like Rock.
A Solid Foundation for all Good States!
Immorality creates regret, and thus destroys Joy...
Purity creates calm, and thus the subtle concentration,
which is necessary for gaining all higher understanding!
Only higher Understanding sets completely Free...