4.
The Discourse on the Seven Courses of Action
110.
He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"Monks, beings flow together and meet according to element.
Those who kill living beings flow together and meet with those who kill living beings;
those who take what is not given flow together and meet with those who take what is not given;
those who engage in sexual misconduct flow together and meet with those who engage in sexual misconduct;
liars flow together and meet with liars;
those of divisive speech flow together and meet with those of divisive speech;
those of harsh speech flow together and meet with those of harsh speech;
those who engage in idle chatter flow together and meet with those who engage in idle chatter."
"Those who abstain from killing living beings, etc. those who abstain from taking what is not given, those who abstain from sexual misconduct, those who abstain from lying, those who abstain from divisive speech flow together and meet with those who abstain from divisive speech; those who abstain from harsh speech flow together and meet with those who abstain from harsh speech; those who abstain from idle chatter flow together and meet with those who abstain from idle chatter." The fourth.