Numbered Discourses 4.84

9. Confirmed

Valuing Anger

“Mendicants, someone with four qualities is cast down to hell.
What four?
They value anger, or denigration, or material things, or honor rather than the true teaching.
Someone with these four qualities is cast down to hell.

Someone with four qualities is raised up to heaven.
What four?
They value the true teaching rather than anger, or denigration, or material things, or honor.
Someone with these four qualities is raised up to heaven.”