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The right way leads forward.

The wrong way leads backward.

Have SincerityDo not proceed on an evil path.

Do not sin in secret.

Accumulate virtue, increase merit.

With a compassionate heart turn toward all creatures.

Be faithful

Be filial

Be friendly

Be brotherly

First rectify thyself and then convert others.

Take pity on orphans and assist widows.

Respect the old and be kind to children.

Even the multifarious insects, herbs, and trees should not be injured.

Be grieved at the misfortune of others

Rejoice at others' good luck

Assist those in need

Rescue those in dangerRegard your neighbor's gain as your own gain

Regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss

Do not call attention to the faults of others.

Do not boast of your own excellence.

Hold back evil and promote goodness

Renounce much and accept little

Show endurance in humiliation and bear no grudge

Merit and Demerit Checklist

THE Exalted One says: Curses and blessings do not come through gates, but man himself invites their arrival. The reward of good and evil is like

the shadow accompanying a body, and so it is apparent that heaven and earth are possessed of crimerecording spirits. According to the lightness or

gravity of his transgressions, the sinner's term of life is reduced. Not only is his term of life reduced, but poverty also strikes him. Often he meets with

calamity and misery. His neighbors hate him. Punishments and curses pursue him. Good luck shuns him. Evil stars threaten him; and when his term

of life comes to an end, he perishes.

Further, there are the three councilor, spiritlords of the northern constellation, who reside above the heads of the people, record men's crimes and

sins, and cut off terms of from twelve years to a hundred days. Further, there are the three body-spirits that live within each person. Whenever Kng

Shn day comes, they ascend to the heavenly master and inform him of men's crimes and trespasses. On the last day of the month the Hearth

Spirit, too, does the same. Of all the offences which men commit, the greater ones cause a loss of twelve years, the smaller ones of a hundred days.

These offences, great as well as small, constitute some hundred affairs, and those who are anxious for life everlasting, should above all avoid them.

Cultivate Respect for Others

Summary

Show Kindness/Benevolence

Conduct Righteousness+B50

Suppress Evil Spread Goodness

Three Good Roots

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Receive favors as if surprised

Extend your help without seeking reward

Give to others and do not regret or begrudge your liberality

Your behavior is unrighteous.

Your deportment is irrational.

Delight in evil

Do harm and damage with brutality

Insidiously injure the good and the lawabiding

Stealthily despise your superiors and parents

Disregard your seniors

Rebel against those whom you serve

Deceive the uninformedSlander your fellow-students

Liars you are, bearing false witness, deceivers, and hypocrites.

Be malevolent exposers of kith and kin

Be mischievous and malignant; not humane

Be cruel and irrational; self-willed

Confound right and wrong

Your avowals and disavowals are not as they ought to be.

Oppress your subordinates and appropriate their merit

Cringe to superiors to curry favor

Be insentient to favors received

Remember your hatred and are never satisfied

Hold in contempt the lives of Heaven's people

Agitate and disturb the public order

Patronize the unscrupulous

Do harm to the inoffensive

Murder men to take their property

Have others ousted to take their places

Slay the yielding and slaughter those who have surrenderedMalign the righteous and dispossess the wise

Molest orphans and wrong widows

Disregard law and take bribe

Call crooked what is straight, straight what is crooked

Make heavy what is light

Aggravate it by harshness when witnessing an execution

Though you know your mistakes you do not correct them.

Though you know the good you do not do it.

Those who are thus, are good: people honor them; Heaven's Reason gives them grace; blessings and abundance follow them; all ill luck keeps

away; angel spirits guard them. Whatever they undertake will surely succeed, and even to spiritual saintliness they may aspire. Those who wish to

attain heavenly saintliness, should perform one thousand three hundred good deeds, and those who wish to attain to earthly saintliness should

perform three hundred good deeds.

Worldly Sin

Evil Shown by Person at High Position

Practice Giving

Serious Sin of Treachery and Rebellion

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Implicate others in your own guilt

Impede and obstruct the professions and crafts

Vilify and disparage the holy and the Wise

Ridicule and scorn reason and virtue

Shoot the flying and chase the running

Expose the hiding and surprise nestlings

Close up entrance holes and upset nests

Injure the pregnant and break the egg

Wish others to incur loss

Disparage others that achieve merit

Endanger others to save yourself

Impoverish others for your own gain

Exchange what is valuable for worthless things

Neglect public duties for private ends

Appropriate the accomplishments of your neighbor

Conceal others' good qualities

Make known others' foibles

Expose others' secrets

Squander others' property

Cause divisions in others' family

Attack that which is dear to others

Assist others in doing wrong

Your unbridled ambition makes for power.

Seek success through the degradation of othersDestroy the crops and fields of others

Break up betrothals

Have grown rich improperly and withal remain vulgar

Improperly shirk without shame

Claim having done acts of favor and disclaim being at fault

Give away evil in marriage and sell wrongs (Better translation: "Make others take blame

and cover up for your wrong doing.")

Sell and buy vainglory (Better translation: Purchase undeserved reputation)

Conceal and keep a treacherous heart

Crush that which is excellent in others

Careful in hiding your shortcomings

Being on a high horse you threaten and intimidate.

Kill and stab with unrestrained barbarism

Cut cloth to waste recklessly

Prepare cattle for food without festive occasions

Scatter and waste the five cereals

Trouble and annoy many people

Evil in Indomitable Strength and Violence

Not Cherishing Things

Evil in Killing

Evil in Undermining Others

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Break into others' houses to take their property and valuables

Misdirect the water and light fires to destroy the people's homes

Upset others' plans so as to prevent their success

Spoil a worker's utensils to hamper his efficiency

Wish others to run down and fail when seeing their success and prosperity

Wish others bankrupt and ruined when seeing their wealth

Cannot see beauty without cherishing in your hearts thoughts of seduction

Wish death upon your creditors when indebted to them for goods or property

Begin to curse and wax hateful when your requests are not granted

Gossip of your neighbors' failure when seeing they lose their vantage

Ridicule others when seeing they imperfect in their bodily features

Suppress the truth when observing the talent and ability of a man worthy of praise

Use charms for the sake of controlling others

Employ drugs to kill trees

Be ill-humored and angry towards teachers and instructors

Resist and provoke father and elders

Seize and demand with violence

Delight in fraud and robbery

Make raids and commit depredations to get rich

Seek promotion by artful tricks

Reward and punish without justice

Indulge in comforts and enjoyments without measureHarass and tyrannize over your subordinates

Terrify and threaten to overawe others

Accuse heaven and find fault with man

Blame the wind and rail at the rain.

Stir up party strife and law suits

Join factious associations unprovoked

Rely on your wives' and other women's gossip but disobey the instructions of father and mother

Take up the new and forget the old

Your mouth asserts what your heart denies.

Be shamelessly greedy for wealth

Deceive your father and your superiors

Invent and circulate vile talk

Traduce and slander innocent men

Slander others yet you feign honesty.

Rail at spirits and claim to be right yourself

Reject a good cause and espouse a wrong cause

Spurn what is near and long for the distant

Evil in Having Evil Intent

Evil in Rebellion

Evil in Lack of Taboo

Show Acts of Bullying Toward Others

Evil in Seizing Others' Aspiration

Evil in Hiding Evil Intent

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Point at heaven and earth to make them witnesses of your mean thoughts

Call on bright spirits to make them witness your degrading deeds

Regret after you give charity

Borrow and accept without intention to return

Scheme and contrive beyond your due lot

Plot and plan above your means

Your lusty desires exceed all measure.

Show a compassionate face while your heart is venomous

Feed the poor with filthy food

Mislead others with heresies

Shorten the foot and narrow the measure

Lighten the scales and reduce the peck

Adulterate the genuine

Seek profit in illegitimate business

Compel respectable people to become lowly

Betray and deceive the simple-minded

Be greedy and covetous without satiety

Curse and swear to seek vindication

Become rebellious and unruly while indulging in liquor

Be angry and quarrelsome with the members of your own family

As husband you are neither faithful nor kind.

As wife you are neither gentle nor pliant.

As husband you are not in harmony with your wife.

As wife you are not respectful to your husband.

As husband you delight in bragging and conceit.As wife you always practice jealousy and suspicion.

As husband you behave unmannerly toward your wife and children

As wife you lack propriety to your father-inlaw and your mother-in-law.

Make light of the spirit of your ancestor

Disobey and dislike the commands of your superiors

Make and do what is not useful

Harbor and keep a treacherous heart

Curse yourself and others

Be partial in your hatred and partial in your love

Step over the well and the hearth

Jump over the food and a person

Kill the baby and cause abortion of the unborn

Do many clandestine and wrong deeds

Sing and dance on the last day of the month and the last day of the year

Start roaring and scolding on The first day of the month and the first day of the year

Snivel and spit when facing the north

Sing, hum and weep when facing the hearth

Evil in Not Being Benevolent

Evil Shown in the Family

Evil in Not Showing Respect to the Deities

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Burn incense with hearth fire

Cook food with filthy fagots

Rise and expose your nakedness in the night

Execute punishment on the eight festivals of the seasons

Spit at falling stars

Point at the many colored rainbow

Irreverently point at the three luminaries

Intently gaze at the sun and at the moon

Hunt with fire in the spring

Use vile language when facing the north

Causelessly kill tortoises and snakes

If a man's heart be awakened to the good, though the good be not yet accomplished, good spirits verily are already following him. If a man's heart be

awakened to evil, though evil be not yet accomplished, evil spirits verily are already following him. Those who have hitherto done evil deeds should

henceforth mend and repent. If evil be no longer practiced and good deeds done, and if in this way a man continues and continues, he will surely obtain

happiness and felicity. He will, indeed, so to speak, transform curses into blessings. Therefore, blessed is the man who speaketh what is good, who thinketh

what is good, who practiceth what is good. If but each single day he would persevere in these three ways of goodness, within three years Heaven will surely

shower on him blessings. Unfortunate is the man who speaketh what is evil, who thinketh what is evil, who practiceth what is evil. If but each single day he

would persevere in these three ways of evildoing, within three years Heaven will surely shower on him curses. Why shall we not be diligent and comply with

this?

For all these crimes the councilors of destiny deprive the guilty, according to the lightness or gravity of the offence, of terms from twelve years to a hundred

days, and when the lease of life is exhausted they perish. If at death an unexpiated offence be left, the evil luck will be transferred to children and

grandchildren.

Moreover, all those who wrongly seize others' property may have to compensate for it, with wives or children or other family members, the expiation to be

proportionate up to a punishment by death. If the guilt be not expiated by death, they will suffer by various evils, by water, by fire, by theft, or by robbery, by

loss of property, by disease and illness, and by ill repute, to compensate for any unlawful violence of justice.

Further, those who unlawfully kill men will in turn have their weapons and arms turned on them; yea, they will kill each other. Those who seize property, are,

to use an illustration, like those who relieve their hunger by eating tainted meat, or quench their thirst by drinking poisoned liquor. Though they are not

without temporary gratification, death will anon overcome them.

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