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The Discourse on the Immoral
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"Monks, for one who is immoral, failing in morality, right concentration has its proximate cause destroyed;
when right concentration is absent, for one failing in right concentration, knowledge and vision of things as they really are has its proximate cause destroyed;
when knowledge and vision of things as they really are is absent, for one failing in knowledge and vision of things as they really are, disenchantment and dispassion has its proximate cause destroyed;
when disenchantment and dispassion is absent, for one failing in disenchantment and dispassion, knowledge and vision of liberation has its proximate cause destroyed.
Just as, monks, a tree lacking branches and leaves.
Its outer bark does not go to fulfilment, its inner bark does not go to fulfilment, its softwood does not go to fulfilment, its heartwood does not go to fulfilment;
so too, monks, for one who is immoral, failing in morality, right concentration has its proximate cause destroyed;
when right concentration is absent, for one failing in right concentration, knowledge and vision of things as they really are has its proximate cause destroyed;
when knowledge and vision of things as they really are is absent, for one failing in knowledge and vision of things as they really are, disenchantment and dispassion has its proximate cause destroyed;
when disenchantment and dispassion is absent, for one failing in disenchantment and dispassion, knowledge and vision of liberation has its proximate cause destroyed.
"Monks, for one who is moral, accomplished in morality, right concentration is accomplished in its proximate cause; when right concentration is present, for one accomplished in right concentration, knowledge and vision of things as they really are is accomplished in its proximate cause; when knowledge and vision of things as they really are is present, for one accomplished in knowledge and vision of things as they really are, disenchantment and dispassion is accomplished in its proximate cause; when disenchantment and dispassion is present, for one accomplished in disenchantment and dispassion, knowledge and vision of liberation is accomplished in its proximate cause. Just as, monks, a tree accomplished with branches and leaves. Its outer bark goes to fulfilment, its inner bark goes to fulfilment, its softwood goes to fulfilment, its heartwood goes to fulfilment; so too, monks, for one who is moral, accomplished in morality, right concentration is accomplished in its proximate cause; when right concentration is present, for one accomplished in right concentration, knowledge and vision of things as they really are is accomplished in its proximate cause; when knowledge and vision of things as they really are is present, for one accomplished in knowledge and vision of things as they really are, disenchantment and dispassion is accomplished in its proximate cause; when disenchantment and dispassion is present, for one accomplished in disenchantment and dispassion, knowledge and vision of liberation is accomplished in its proximate cause." The fourth.