The ten courses of action extend the precepts in both directions: outward into speech, where four of the ten live, and inward into mind, where three do. That speech gets more clauses than anything else is the striking part — not merely lying, but speech that divides people from each other, speech that wounds, and speech that simply wastes time. The three mental ones — covetousness, ill will, and wrong view — make the framework unusual among religious codes in treating an unexpressed disposition as an action with consequences, which follows directly from the claim that karma is intention rather than deed.