[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་ལེགས་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354) › [Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000) › 2 # འཕགས་པ་ལགས་ཉས་ཀྱ་རྒྱ་དང་འབྲས་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2 Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill 2 - **Language:** English ### [2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.2) while others are tall and big yet work in servitude to others. Some have many children,¹¹ while others live alone.¹² Some wander outside, hungry and afflicted by cold, while others live indoors, enjoying clothing and food.¹³ Some are poor when they are young and finally become wealthy by the time they are old. Some are honest in their dealings yet are forcefully imprisoned without having committed any crimes.¹⁴ Some have compassionate parents and respectful¹⁵ children and discuss with them the truths of the sūtras and sciences.¹⁶ Some fight and quarrel, estranging brother from brother. Some possess a multitude of riches and build mansions, while others depend upon others and have no house of their own. Some live in the trees and on the plains like birds.¹⁷ Some wear furs, forage grass for food, and drink like ferocious beasts. Some are illiterate.¹⁸ Some experience the ripening of happiness without doing anything.¹⁹ Some do not find any source of income.²⁰ “Some become knowledgeable through their sharp faculties,²¹ while others lack knowledge due to their dull faculties. Some find things only after searching, while others find things even without searching. Some are very stingy even though they are rich, while others delight in giving even though they are poor. Some speak gently with eloquent words, while others speak wrathfully with harsh words.²² Some are respected and beloved by all, while some are cast far away by everyone.²³ Some lovingly care for living beings, while others murder countless living beings. - [Previous: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.1) - [Next: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ལེགས་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.2) · Pramāṇa