1. The complete virtuous action of living in the morality abstaining from killing has four happy results:

1. the fully ripened result: You will receive a good rebirth in the body of a happy migrator being in the human or deva realms instead of rebirth in the suffering lower realms.

2. experiencing the result similar to the previous cause: You will have a long and healthy life.

3. the possessed result: When reborn in the human realm, you will live in a glorified place where food, drink, medicines, and crops are very nutritious. Food and drink will be easy to digest and will be the causes to be healthy and not causes of illness. You will not experience an untimely death.

4. creating the result similar to the previous cause of living in the morality abstaining from killing: In future lives you will again be able to practice Dharma and will continue to practice the morality of abstaining from killing. This is, therefore, a cause of being able to stop harming others in this way in future lives.

2. The complete virtuous action of living in the morality abstaining from stealing has four happy results:

1. the fully ripened result: You will receive a good rebirth in the body of a happy migrator being in the human or deva realms instead of rebirth in the suffering lower realms.

2. experiencing the result similar to the previous cause: In the future when you are reborn in the human realm, you will be wealthy and will not experience poverty. Even the wealth you have will not be taken away by others, and you will have full freedom to use your wealth without it being possessed by others; thus you will not lack the complete freedom to enjoy it as you wish.

3. the possessed result: In the place where one is reborn in the human realm in the future there will be plenty of food, drink, and so forth. The means of livelihood will be easy to come by, and the place will have none of the following unpleasant results: scarcity of sustenance of all kinds; crops and fruit that are very scarce and difficult to cultivate; crops and harvests that are easily destroyed by worms, rodents, insects, rot, floods, and droughts that cause crops to wither up and disappear. Although it may appear that killing the insects, rodents, and so forth that eat and destroy one's crops helps such a situation in the short term, you can see, however, that one is merely creating another negative karma of killing, the suffering result of which has just been explained above. You need to look for other solutions. The ultimate answer to these problems mentioned above, therefore, is to practice morality in this life... now... avoiding the negative karma of stealing. Practicing morality abstaining from stealing is the ultimate solution in order to stop big floods, hailstorms, droughts, lightning storms, hurricanes etc. and all manner of natural disasters of the environment.

4. creating the result similar to the previous cause of living in the morality abstaining from stealing: In future lives you will again be able to collect good karma by living in the morality abstaining from stealing. Therefore, you will be able to stop giving harm to others and to yourself in this way.