Unwholesome Actions

There are ten main forms of unwholesome actions.
Bodily
1. Taking life
2. Taking what does not belong to oneself
3. Engaging in sexual misconduct (adultery, seduction, etc)
4. Speaking falsehood

Verbal
5. Speaking slanderous speech
6. Speaking harshly
7. Engaging in idle chatter, in gossip

Mental
8. Covetousness,yearning for the possessions of others
9. Ill will (Actively desiring harm, suffering and destruction to come to others)
10. Wrong views (specially fixed wrong views which deny the efficacy of moral action.)

By abstaining from the above, one develops the opposite virtues, the ten courses of wholesome action.

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