AN 1.287 - AN 1.287
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Tatiya Vagga The Third Sub Group

287. “Bhikkhus, it is simply impossible to imagine a beneficial bodily conduct or good physical behavior that could somehow produce truly undesirable and abhorring, painful and displeasing results. There is absolutely no possibility for this to occur.

“However, it is quite possible for a beneficial bodily conduct or good physical behavior to produce truly desirable and lovely, pleasurable and gratifying results. There is indeed, every possibility for this to occur.”
