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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son Goku" data-source="post: 29618134" data-attributes="member: 583961"><h3>3. The Long Section on Virtue (Mahāsīla)</h3>“Or he might say: ‘Whereas some recluses and brahmins, while living on the food offered by the faithful, earn their living by a wrong means of livelihood, by such debased arts as:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">prophesying long life, prosperity etc., or the reverse, from the marks on a person’s limbs, hands, feet etc.; divining by means of omens and signs;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">making auguries on the basis of thunderbolts and celestial portents;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">interpreting ominous dreams;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">telling fortunes from marks on the body;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">making auguries from the marks on cloth gnawed by mice; offering fire oblations;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">offering oblations from a ladle;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">offering oblations of husks, rice powder, rice grains, ghee, and oil to the gods;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">offering oblations from the mouth;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">offering blood-sacrifices to the gods;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">making predictions based on the fingertips;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">determining whether the site for a proposed house or garden is propitious or not;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">making predictions for officers of state;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the knowledge of charms to lay demons in a cemetery;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the knowledge of charms to cure one possessed by ghosts;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the knowledge of charms to be pronounced by one living in an earthen house;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the snake craft (for curing snake bites and charming snakes);</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the poison craft (for neutralizing or making poison)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the scorpion craft and rat craft (for curing scorpion stings and rat bites, respectively);</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the bird craft and crow craft (for understanding the cries of birds and crows);</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">foretelling the number of years that a man has to live;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the knowledge of charms to give protection from arrows;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">reciting charms to understand the language of animals—</li> </ul>the recluse Gotama abstains from such wrong means of livelihood, from such debased arts.’“Or he might say: ‘Whereas some recluses and brahmins, while living on the food offered by the faithful, earn their living by a wrong means of livelihood, by such debased arts as interpreting the significance of the colour, shape, and other features of the following items to determine whether they portend fortune or misfortune for their owners: gems, garments, staffs, swords, spears, arrows, bows, other weapons, women, men, boys, girls, slaves, slave-women, elephants, horses, buffaloes, bulls, cows, goats, rams, fowl, quails, lizards, rabbits, tortoises, and other animals—the recluse Gotama abstains from such wrong means of livelihood, from such debased arts.’<a href="https://suttacentral.net/dn1/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false" target="_blank">https://suttacentral.net/dn1/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false</a></blockquote>

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