Collections of sutta texts outside the four main collections.
Pasannacittasutta
Iti 21
A Pure Mind
Clear-mindedness leads to rebirth in a heavenly world.
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Mettasutta
Iti 22
The Benefits of Love
"Acts of merit" is a synonym for what is blissful, desirable, pleasing, endearing, charming. The Buddha recalls the results he himself has experienced from doing meritorious deeds.
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Ubhayatthasutta
Iti 23
Both Kinds of Benefit
Heedfulness with regard to skillful qualities keeps both kinds of benefit secure: benefit in this live and benefit in lives to come.
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Aṭṭhipuñjasutta
Iti 24
A Heap of Bones
In this course of transmigrating, one person would leave behind a heap of bones as large as a mountain-if there were someone to collect the bones and the collection were not destroyed.
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Musāvādasutta
Iti 25
Lying
A person who tells a deliberate lie is capable of any evil deed.
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Dānasutta
Iti 26
Giving
If you knew, as the Buddha did, the results of giving and sharing, you wouldn't eat without having shared.
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Mettābhāvanāsutta
Iti 27
The Meditation on Love
Goodwill far outshines all other ways of making merit.
