Good Conduct
43. ‘And how, O king, is his conduct good?
‘In this, O king, that the Bhikshu, putting away the killing of living things, holds aloof from the destruction of life. The cudgel and the sword he has laid aside, and ashamed of roughness, and full of mercy, he dwells compassionate and kind to all creatures that have life.
‘This is part of the goodness that he has.
[Here follow the whole of the Sîlas (the paragraphs on minor morality), in the words already translated above in the Brahma-gâla Sutta, §§ 8 to 27. Only for ‘Gotama the recluse’ one should read ‘the Bhikshu’; and alter in each case the words of the refrain accordingly.]
[69] 63. ‘And then that Bhikshu, O king, being thus master of the minor moralities, sees no danger from any side; that is, so far as concerns his self-restraint in conduct. Just, O king, as a sovereign, duly crowned, whose enemies have been beaten down, sees no danger from any side; [70] that is, so far as enemies are concerned, so is the Bhikshu confident. And endowed with this body of morals, so worthy of honour, he experiences, within himself, a sense of ease without alloy. Thus is it, O king, that the Bhikshu becomes righteous.
Translated from the Pâli by T. W. Rhys Davids – London, H. Frowde, Oxford University Press [1899] http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/dob/dob-02tx.htm#p.%2078