[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Mahākarmavibhaṅga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga) › [ལས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo) › [The Exposition of Karma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo~en-84000) › 4 # ལས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱད་པ 4 The Exposition of Karma 4 - **Language:** English ### [4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo~en-84000.4) who possess moral discipline mental distress; feeling glad when one’s enemies are stricken by illness; feeling unhappy when one’s enemies recover from an illness; and not giving medicine and giving indigestible foods—this kind of action leads to having many illnesses. “What kind of action leads to having few illnesses? Not hitting someone with the palm of the hand or with the fist;⁶² encouraging others to abstain from hitting with the palm of the hand or the fist and praising the merits of abstaining from hitting; rejoicing in not hitting; serving one’s ill parents, householders, and monks, regardless of whether they are senior or junior monks; caring for the sick; not feeling happy or glad when one’s enemies fall ill; rejoicing in their recovery; and giving medicine and digestible food⁶³—this kind of action leads to having few illnesses. “What kind of action leads to having an ugly appearance?⁶⁴ Anger, enmity, resentment, spite,⁶⁵ speaking ill of one’s parents, speaking ill of householders and of senior or junior monks, soiling stūpas and monasteries and the site of a stūpa, extinguishing offering lamps at stūpas and images, deriding ugly people, and having little sense of cleanliness—this kind of action leads to ugliness. “What kind of action leads to beauty? The opposites of anger, enmity, resentment, and spite; donating clothing; plastering⁶⁶ stūpas and monasteries with white lime;⁶⁷ donating beautiful⁶⁸ bowls; making an offering of incense, scented ointment, cloth, and ornaments; praising one’s parents; praising noble ones and those who possess moral discipline; cleaning and sweeping the court around a stūpa, a monastery, and one’s house; not deriding ugly people; not deriding others in general, - [Previous: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo~en-84000.3) - [Next: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo~en-84000.5) ## Linked texts (1) - [ལས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo.4) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo~en-84000.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahakarmavibhanga*bo~en-84000.4) · Pramāṇa