Trades · AN 5.177
“Mendicants, a lay follower should not engage in these five trades. What five? Trade in weapons, living creatures, meat, intoxicants, and poisons. A lay follower should not engage in these five trades.”
Trades · AN 5.177
Early Buddhist discourse · AN 5.177
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Five kinds of trade are identified as inappropriate for a lay follower.
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Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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- Siddhārtha Gautama · the Buddha
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- Ethics & the eightfold path
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