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Deeds In Brief

Saṁkhittasutta

Karma that’s dark, bright, both, and neither.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.232Numbered Discourses 4.232
  • 0.224. Kammavagga24. Deeds

0.3SaṅkhittasuttaDeeds In Brief

1.1“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, kammāni mayā sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā paveditāni.“Mendicants, I declare these four kinds of deeds, having realized them with my own insight.1.2Katamāni cattāri?What four?

  1. 1.3Atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ kaṇhaṁ kaṇhavipākaṁ;There are dark deeds with dark results.
  2. 1.4atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ sukkaṁ sukkavipākaṁ;There are bright deeds with bright results.
  3. 1.5atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ kaṇhasukkaṁ kaṇhasukkavipākaṁ;There are dark and bright deeds with dark and bright results.
  4. 1.6atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ akaṇhaasukkaṁ akaṇhaasukkavipākaṁ kammakkhayāya saṁvattati.There are neither dark nor bright deeds with neither dark nor bright results, which lead to the ending of deeds.

1.7Imāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri kammāni mayā sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā paveditānī”ti.These are the four kinds of deeds that I declare, having realized them with my own insight.”

1.8Paṭhamaṁ.