Catukkanipāta 19

Numbered Discourses 4.19

2. Walking

Prejudice (3rd)

1 “Mendicants, there are these four ways of making prejudiced decisions. What four? Making decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. These are the four ways of making prejudiced decisions.

2 There are these four ways of making unprejudiced decisions. What four? Making decisions unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. These are the four ways of making unprejudiced decisions.

3 If you act against the teaching

out of favoritism, hostility, cowardice, or stupidity,

your fame fades away,

like the moon in the waning fortnight.

4 If you don’t act against the teaching

out of favoritism, hostility, cowardice, and stupidity,

your fame swells,

like the moon in the waxing fortnight.”