ལས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་པར་འགྱར་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་གཞང 10

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(2) engaging in a minor bad deed with one’s speech, (3) engaging in a minor bad deed with one’s mind, (4) having a desire for base things,¹⁶³ (5) having very strong desire,¹⁶⁴ (6) pursuing a wrong way of making a living, (7) being stingy and tightfisted, (8) obstructing others in making offerings, (9) having died while under the influence of sexual desire, and (10) having died while being hungry and thirsty. These are the ten factors.

“In what way does action lead to rebirth in the realm of the asuras? Ten factors lead to rebirth in the realm of the asuras. What are the ten? (1) Frequently committing minor bad deeds with one’s body, (2) frequently committing minor bad deeds with one’s speech, (3) frequently committing minor bad deeds with one’s mind, (4) conceit,¹⁶⁵ (5) conceiving of oneself as having no equal, (6) conceiving of oneself as being greater than one’s equals,¹⁶⁶ (7) conceiving of oneself as being greater than those who are superior, (8) conceiving of oneself as being superior to those who are supreme, (9) conceiving of nonexistence with regard to the self,¹⁶⁷ ¹⁶⁸ and (10) dedicating one’s roots of wholesome states to false aspirations.¹⁶⁹ These are the ten. These ten factors will lead to rebirth in the realm of the asuras.

“In what way does action lead to rebirth in the human realm? Ten factors lead to rebirth in the human realm. What are the ten? By not violating and not corrupting the ten virtuous courses of action, one will be reborn in the human realm.

“In what way does action lead to rebirth as a deva in one of the six heavens of sensuous pleasure?¹⁷⁰ Ten factors lead to rebirth as a deva in one of the six heavens of sensuous pleasure. By not violating, and remaining diligently committed¹⁷¹ to, the ten virtuous courses of action, one will be reborn as a deva in one of the six heavens of sensuous pleasure.

“In what way does action lead to rebirth as a deva possessing a physical body? Ten factors lead to rebirth as a deva possessing a physical body. What are the ten? While one is devoted to the ten virtuous courses of action, one brings the six perfections and the four boundless states to perfection—this will lead to rebirth as a deva possessing a physical body.¹⁷²

“In what way does action lead to rebirth as a deva without a physical body?¹⁷³ Practicing the ten virtuous factors and the four states of imperturbability¹⁷⁴ leads to rebirth as a deva without a physical body. As for the four states of imperturbability:¹⁷⁵

1. “One transcends all materiality by contemplating the infinity of space, so that, when all names designating physical objects¹⁷⁶ have become inexpressible and void,¹⁷⁷ one goes beyond labeling and imagining the manifold phenomena,