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What are the various Inherent Aspects of Morality?

The Primary Aspect of Morality is:
Composing internal consistency in all behaviour…

The Dual Aspects of Morality are:
Keeping the rules and avoiding wrongdoing…
 Good behaviour and mental purification…
Good intention and full self-control…
Dependent on prompting or independent…
Limited in extent or unlimited in extent…
Temporary & feeble or lifelong & stable…
Ordinary/Mundane or Supramundane/Noble…

The Triple aspects of Morality are:
Low, or medium, or superior…
Giving priority to oneself, or the world, or the Dhamma…
Clung to, or not clung to, or naturally maintained…
 Pure, or impure, or dubious and doubtful…
The learner’s, the learned’s, or the neither-learner-nor-learned’s…

The Quadruple aspects of Morality are:
Leading to falling, to stagnation, to distinction or to penetration…
That of Bhikkhus, or Bhikkhunis, or novices, or the laity…
Being natural, customary, necessary, or caused by prior events…
Regarding the rules, the sense doors, livelihood, or the requisites…

The Fivefold aspects of Morality are:
Limited, unlimited, completed, detached, and tranquillized purity…
Intending, refraining, controlling, leaving, and non-transgression…

These are the various inherent aspects of Morality…

Source: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga.
Written by 'the great explainer' Ven. Buddhaghosa in 5th century AC.

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