4: The Book of the Fours
232. In Brief
- A Saddhamma Study Group translation from the Pāḷi text.
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1 “These four, O bhikkhus, are kammas that are proclaimed by me after having realized them by myself with supreme knowledge. What four?
2 There is, O bhikkhus, dark kamma with dark results. There is, O bhikkhus, bright kamma with bright results. There is, O bhikkhus, dark and bright kamma with dark and bright results. There is, O bhikkhus, neither dark nor bright kamma with neither dark nor bright results that leads to the extinction of kamma.
3 These, O bhikkhus, are the four kammas that are proclaimed by me after having realized them by myself with supreme knowledge.”
0 sāvatthinidānaṃ
1 cattārimāni bhikkhave kammāni mayā sayaṃ abhiññā sacchikatvā paveditāni. katamāni cattāri?
2 atthi bhikkhave kammaṃ kaṇhaṃ kaṇhavipākaṃ. atthi bhikkhave kammaṃ sukkaṃ sukkavipākaṃ. atthi bhikkhave kammaṃ kaṇhasukkaṃ kaṇhasukkavipākaṃ. atthi bhikkhave kammaṃ akaṇhaṃ asukkaṃ akaṇhaasukkavipākaṃ kammakkhayāya saṃvattati.
3 imāni kho bhikkhave cattāri kammāni mayā sayaṃ abhiññā sacchikatvā paveditānīti.