The Path of Wholesomeness and Unwholesomeness : หน้า 85/263

- stealing [adinnāḍāna] - committing adultery [kāmesumicchācāra] Unwholesome speech comprises: - telling lies [musāvāda] - divisive speech [pisuṇaṅāṭa] - harsh speech, insults and swearing [pharusavaṭṭa] - idle chatter, frivolous talk [samphappalāpa] Unwholesome thought comprises: - covetousness [abhijjhā] - vengeful thinking [byāpāda] - false view [micchādiṭṭhi] Most people know that these ten behaviours of the Path of Unwholesomeness are to be strictly avoided, but under the influence of craving for sense-pleasure which lurks in the mind, they cannot avoid the temptation of these behaviours and lose their fear and shame of the contingent retribution. Those who have habitually committed these behaviours tend to be reborn in the unfortunate (hell) realms after death. This is why the Lord Buddha pointed to craving as the Origin of all suffering in the Sphere of the Sense Pleasures. Those who wish for human wealth¹, heavenly wealth (in any of the lower six levels of heaven) and who expend effort in generosity and keeping the Precepts, and who conduct themselves in accordance with the Tenfold Path of Wholesomeness [kusalakammapata], when they are reborn in the human world, they will be endowed with human wealth — or if they are born in the heaven realms, they will be endowed with heavenly wealth. However, hanker- 1. Human wealth [manussasampatti] is wealth fitting for those in the human realm as opposed to the wealth of heaven realms [dibbasampatti] or the wealth of Nirvana [nibbanasampatti].