7.
The Third Discourse on Not the Teaching
173.
"What is not the Teaching, monks, should be known, and the Teaching;
what is harmful should be known, and what is beneficial.
Having understood what is not the Teaching and the Teaching, having understood what is harmful and what is beneficial, one should proceed according to the Teaching, according to what is beneficial.
"And what, monks, is not the Teaching, and what is the Teaching; and what is harmful, and what is beneficial? Killing living beings, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from killing living beings is the Teaching; and whatever many evil unwholesome mental states come to be with killing living beings as condition, this is harmful; and with abstention from killing living beings as condition, many wholesome mental states go to fulfilment through development, this is beneficial.
"Taking what is not given, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from taking what is not given is the Teaching... sexual misconduct, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from sexual misconduct is the Teaching... lying, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from lying is the Teaching... divisive speech, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from divisive speech is the Teaching... harsh speech, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from harsh speech is the Teaching... idle chatter, monks, is not the Teaching; abstention from idle chatter is the Teaching... covetousness, monks, is not the Teaching; non-covetousness is the Teaching... anger, monks, is not the Teaching; non-anger is the Teaching...
"Wrong view, monks, is not the Teaching; right view is the Teaching; and whatever many evil unwholesome mental states come to be with wrong view as condition, this is harmful; and with right view as condition, many wholesome mental states go to fulfilment through development, this is beneficial.
'What is not the Teaching, monks, should be known, and the Teaching; what is harmful should be known, and what is beneficial. Having understood what is not the Teaching and the Teaching, having understood what is harmful and what is beneficial, one should proceed according to the Teaching, according to what is beneficial' - thus what was said, this was said dependent on that." The seventh.