Meritorious

“Bhikkhus, I will teach the meritorious and the demeritorious, listen and attend to it carefully. Bhikkhus, what is the demeritorious? .

Destroying living things, taking the not given, misbehaving sexually, telling lies, slandering, talking roughly, talking frivolously, coveting, bearing an angry mind and upholding wrong view, these are said to be demeritorious.

Bhikkhus, what is meritorious?

Abstaining, from destroying living things, taking the not given, misbehaving sexually, telling lies, slandering, talking roughly, talking frivolously, coveting, bearing an angry mind and upholding right view, these are said to be meritorious.