dn2:60.1 There are some ascetics and brahmins who, while enjoying food given in faith, still earn a living by low lore, by wrong livelihood.
dn2:60.2 This includes predicting whether there will be plenty of rain or drought; plenty to eat or famine; an abundant harvest or a bad harvest; security or peril; sickness or health. It also includes such occupations as arithmetic, accounting, calculating, poetry, and cosmology.
dn2:60.3 They refrain from such low lore, such wrong livelihood.
dn2:60.4 This pertains to their ethics.



