[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) › 5 # འཕགས་པ་ལགས་ཉས་ཀྱ་རྒྱ་དང་འབྲས་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5 Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill 5 - **Language:** English ### [5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.5) As a human, an unsightly forehead⁴⁷ comes from not having bowed upon seeing the thus-gone ones, instead banging one’s hands together at the forehead.⁴⁸ As a human, having a short neck comes from having hid one’s face and run away when one saw the gurus.⁴⁹ As a human, always having heart diseases comes from having hacked, cut, and sliced up the limbs of beings.⁵⁰ As a human, having leprosy comes from having taken wealth away from the innocent.⁵¹ As a human, being short of breath comes from having served cold food to others during the depths of winter.⁵² As a human, lacking sons or daughters comes from having killed many baby birds. As a human, having many children comes from having taken joy in caring for beings. As a human, having a long life comes from having had a loving heart. As a human, having a short life comes from having killed many creatures.⁵³ As a human, being wealthy comes from having practiced generosity. As a human, owning horses and chariots comes from having offered horses and chariots to the Three Jewels. As a human, having brilliant faculties comes from having inquired into and recited the sūtras. As a human, having dull faculties comes from having been an animal. As a human, working as another person’s servant boy or girl comes from having amassed debt. As a human, being unstable and flighty comes from having previously been a monkey. As a human, contracting leprosy comes from having destroyed images of the Three Jewels. As a human, having disabled limbs - [Previous: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.4) - [Next: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.6) ## 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.354.5) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.5) · Pramāṇa