Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c33.s3.83

v2.c33.s3.83

The Mahāsaṅghikas imply by the above opinion of theirs that purity in speech (sammā vācā), actions (sammā kammanta) and means of livelihood (sammā ājīva) is a corporeal property and as such is non-mental and requires no ārammaṇa (basis).⁴ The M. mean that the observance of sīlas transforms the bodily constituents of a being in such a way that it can no longer commit any wrong, i.e., cannot be dussīla.