6.
The Discourse on Righteous Conduct
277.
Righteous conduct, the holy life, this they call the highest treasure;
Even if one has gone forth, from home into homelessness.
278.
If he is of a garrulous nature, delighting in harming, like a wild animal;
His life is worse, he increases the dust of his own self.
279.
A monk fond of disputes, covered by the quality of delusion;
Does not know even what is declared, the Teaching expounded by the Buddha.
280.
Harming those with developed selves, led on by ignorance;
He does not know the defilement, the path leading to hell.
281.
Having attained the nether world, from womb to womb, from darkness to darkness;
Such a monk indeed, after death undergoes suffering.
282.
Just as a pit of excrement may be, full after many years;
And whoever may be of such a form, one with a blemish is indeed hard to purify.
283.
Whoever you know to be of such a kind, monks, connected with the household life;
Having evil desires, evil thoughts, evil conduct and evil resort.
284.
All being united, you should expel him;
Eject the rubbish, remove the filth.
285.
Then carry away the chaff, those who are not ascetics but think themselves ascetics;
Having expelled those of evil desires, who frequent evil conduct.
286.
The pure, being mindful, arrange communal life with the pure;
Then, united and prudent, you will make an end of suffering.
The Discourse on Righteous Conduct is concluded as sixth.