The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

293 - Noble Truths and the Twelve Conditions
(1) Ignorance consists in not understanding what was explained above,
in being liable to delusion and in believing in what one hears to the
neglect of that which one is able to see for himself, as believing in the
existence of the horns of a rabbit because someone else says they do
exist.
(2) In the three worlds, the world of life is illimitable, and living
beings in it are of six classes. They are men, gods, Brahmas, the
inhabitants of hell, the crowd of animals and spirits. According to
good deeds and bad, life takes its birth in one or other of these. Ever
since it assumes the form of embryo, the result of these deeds will
show themselves either in the happiness of mind or in anxiety of
suffering.
Of these evil deeds – killing, theft and evil desire show themselves as
evils springing in the body. Lying, speaking ill of others, harsh words
and useless talk, these four show themselves as evils of speech. Desire,
anger and illusion are three deeds of evil that arise in the mind.
These ten [225] the wise would avoid. If they should fail to do so, they
would be born as animals or spirits or beings of the nether world, and
make themselves liable to extreme anxiety of mind and suffering.
Good men 119 on the contrary, would avoid these ten, and assuming the
good discipline (Śīlam) and taking upon themselves to do deeds of
presuppose a corporeal organism for their supporter. Such an organism
unquestionably can only exist, even only develop, if consciousness is added
to it. But consciousness is only known to us as the result of the organic
processes, especially of the activities of the senses. But these are only set
going where ignorance exists as to the unwholesomeness of their results.’
(The Doctrine of Buddha by George Grimin, pp. 289-90).
119 The Śīlas, according to the Bauddhas, are five or ten. They are:– (1) not
killing, (2) not lying, (3) not stealing, (4) no evil desire, (5) non-acceptance
of gifts [actually the rule is not taking intoxicants]. These are the five