Aṅguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāto
III. Puggala Vagga

Sutta 23

Saṅkhāra Suttaɱ

Cooks Trouble

Translated from the Pali by
Sister Upalavana

 

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[1][pts][bodh][olds] I heard thus.

At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anāthapiṇḍika in Jeta's grove in Sāvatthi.

Bhikkhus, these three persons are evident in the world.

What three?

The person who cooks up troublesome bodily, verbal and mental dispositions and is born in a troublesome world and there, touched by troublesome feelings, feels only unpleasant, like beings born in hell.

The person who cooks up non-troublesome bodily, verbal and mental dispositions and is born in a non-troublesome world and there, touched by non-troublesome feelings, feels only pleasant, like beings born in heaven.

The person who cooks up troublesome and non-troublesome bodily, verbal and mental dispositions and is born in a troublesome and non-troublesome world and there, touched by troublesome and non-troublesome feelings, feels unpleasant and pleasant, like humans, sometimes heavenly and sometimes hellish.

Bhikkhus, these three persons are evident in the world.