Kathavatthu 12.2.8

12.2.8.1

Na vattabbaṃ—

Should it not be said:

Mahāsaṅghika: But if I am wrong, was it not said by the Exalted One:

12.2.8.2

“sabbaṃ kammaṃ savipākan”ti?

"All action has result"?

Mahāsaṅghika: But if I am wrong, was it not said by the Exalted One:

12.2.8.3

Āmantā.

Yes.

Mahāsaṅghika: But if I am wrong, was it not said by the Exalted One:

12.2.8.4

Nanu vuttaṃ bhagavatā—

Was it not said by the Blessed One:

Mahāsaṅghika: But if I am wrong, was it not said by the Exalted One:

12.2.8.5

“nāhaṃ, bhikkhave, sañcetanikānaṃ kammānaṃ katānaṃ upacitānaṃ appaṭisaṃviditvā byantibhāvaṃ vadāmi, tañca kho diṭṭheva dhamme upapajje vā apare vā pariyāye”ti.

"I do not say, monks, that intentional actions done and accumulated are terminated without having been experienced, and that too either in this very life, or on rebirth, or in a subsequent sequence"?

“I declare, bhikkhus, that there can be no annulment of voluntary deeds done and accumulated, without experience of the results thereof, be it in this life or in the after-life”?

12.2.8.6

Attheva suttantoti?

Is there such a discourse?

“I declare, bhikkhus, that there can be no annulment of voluntary deeds done and accumulated, without experience of the results thereof, be it in this life or in the after-life”?

12.2.8.7

Āmantā.

Yes.

“I declare, bhikkhus, that there can be no annulment of voluntary deeds done and accumulated, without experience of the results thereof, be it in this life or in the after-life”?

12.2.8.8

Tena hi sabbaṃ kammaṃ savipākanti.

Therefore all action has result.

Wherefore all action surely entails result.

12.2.8.9

Kammakathā niṭṭhitā.

The discussion on action is finished.