Motif
moral consequence following action
moral_consequence_following_action
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses Chapter I. The Twin-Verses, verses 1-2 confidence: medium
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
The passage presents pain or happiness as following speech or action conditioned by evil or pure thought.
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