VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 69 They follow the three roots immediately, So coveting and so forth come from them The virtues, preparation, aftermath, Arise from nongreed, nonhate, nondelusion 70 Hatred brings killing and harsh words And malice to completion Greed Brings coveting, adultery, And also stealing to completion 71 W rong view, completed by delusion The rest by three, it is proposed The bases, they are sentient beings, Enjoyments, name-and-form, and words 72 W hen killers die before or else Together, there’s no actual— They’ve been born in another body In wars and so forth all of them Have the same goal, so all possess The karma, like the perpetrator 73 To take life is to kill another Intentionally, unerringly To steal is to make another’s wealth O ne’s own by force or thievery 74 To lie with one who shouldn’t be lain with: Four kinds of sexual misconduct To say one thing while thinking another, W hen clearly understood, is lying 73 That which is experienced by eye, By ear, m ind consciousness, and three, Is seen, heard, cognized, and perceived Respectively, it is explained 76 Divisive speech is words said with An afflicted m ind to divide others Harsh speech is words that are unpleasant Any afflicted words are chatter— 44 AREA 77 Some say afflicted speech that’s other Than those, like flattery, song, shows, O r else bad treatises To covet Is wrongly greeding for others’ wealth 78 Malice is hate for sentient beings Believing there’s no virtue or Nonvirtue is wrong view O f these, Three are paths and seven karma, too 79 The nihilist view severs the roots O f Desire that were attained at birth Denial o f cause and result All Gradual By humans They are cut 80 By men and women acting on views The severance is nonpossession Restored by doubt and view of existence; W ho’ve done a heinous deed, not here 81 Up to eight nonvirtues and volition Can simultaneously arise; W hen they are virtuous, up to ten, And yet not one, not eight, not five 82 In hell, there is chatter and harsh words, And malice in two ways; wrong view And covetousness by possession There are three in Unpleasant Sound 83 The seventh is manifest there, too Elsewhere in Desire, the ten nonvirtues Three virtues are in all by way O f being possessed or manifest 84 Beings in Concept Free and Formless Have seven by possession, and In the rest they’re manifest as well, Except in hell and Unpleasant Sound IV ?f K A R M A 45 VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 85 Its proposed these all give dom inant, Compatible, and ripened results Since it makes suffering, and kills, And destroys vigor, three results 86 Acting with body and speech from greed: Wrong livelihood It’s hard to cleanse, So it’s taught separate Saying it’s greed For sustenance contradicts the sutras 87 The karma o f stained discarding paths Brings five results The stainless, four, As the other defiled karmas, W hether they’re virtue or nonvirtue 88 The remaining that are undefiled Have three results, as does the neutral The virtue and so forth of virtue Are four and two and likewise three 89 Nonvirtue’s virtue and so forth Are two, three, four, respectively The virtue and so forth of neutral Are two and three and likewise three 90 Results o f past in all three times Are four, as are the middle’s future The middle has two, and the unborn Has three results that are unborn 91 O n its own level, four results O n different levels, three or two Three learner and so forth of learner Results of karma of nonlearners, 92 The learners’ dharmas and so forth, Are one or three or otherwise two Results o f karmas other than those Are learner, et cetera, two, two, five 46 AREA 93 Results of the discards of seeing, Et cetera, are three, four, and one Two, four, and three results of karmas That are discards of meditation 94 Results of what is not discarded Are one, two, four, respectively Improper is afflicted action, Degenerate ways as well, some say 95 O ne action propels one rebirth There are multiple completing factors The two absorptions without m ind Do not propel, nor does attainment 96 The karma of the heinous deeds; Severe afflictions; lower realms, Beings in Concept Free, and the N orth Are agreed to be three obscurations 97 The heinous deeds are in three lands The sexless and so forth not Since little benefit, no shame Five wanderers have the remaining 98 A schism of the Sangha is Discord by nature, nonconcurrent Its not afflicted; it is neutral The Sangha does possess the schism 99 The unwholesome act is telling lies; It is possessed by the schismatic It ripens for an aeon in Incessant Additional bring additional pain 100 A bhikshu acting upon views, W ho is disciplined, divides Elsewhere Childish Accepting other teachers And paths divides It does not last IV ?f K A R M A 47 VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 101 It is called a schism o f the Wheel Rose-Apple Land N ot less than nine Ritual schisms happen in Three continents, with at least eight 102 At first, at end, before there are faults O r a pair; or when the Sage has passed, W hen boundaries are not established, A schism o f the W heel can t happen 103 Since fields of benefit and qualities Are abandoned and annihilated Even if organs change, it is She whose menses bore one is the mother 104 Intent to beat the Buddha is not, N or if they become an arhat later W hen one has prepared a heinous act, Detachm ent is impossible 105 To tell a lie in order to split The Sangha is the gravest crime O f worldly virtues, the volition O f Peak bears the greatest result 106 To violate one’s arhat mother, To kill a certain Bodhisattva O r learner, and to rob what has Been gathered for the Sanghas purpose 107 Are similar to heinous deeds The fifth is to destroy a stupa Gaining forbearance, nonreturner, And arhat totally blocks karma 108 Since when is he the Bodhisattva? Since doing the karma o f the marks High realms, high caste, full faculties, Male, recalls lifetimes, irreversible 48 ... Brings five results The stainless, four, As the other defiled karmas, W hether they’re virtue or nonvirtue 88 The remaining that are undefiled Have three results, as does the neutral The virtue and... schism of the Sangha is Discord by nature, nonconcurrent Its not afflicted; it is neutral The Sangha does possess the schism 99 The unwholesome act is telling lies; It is possessed by the schismatic... is the mother 104 Intent to beat the Buddha is not, N or if they become an arhat later W hen one has prepared a heinous act, Detachm ent is impossible 105 To tell a lie in order to split The