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1. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 29 The Inspiring Discourse | Pāsādika Sutta
    … They kept arguing, quarreling, & disputing, stabbing one another with weapons of the mouth: “You don’t understand this Dhamma-Vinaya. I understand this Dhamma-Vinaya. How could you understand this Dhamma-Vinaya? You practice wrongly. I practice rightly. I’m consistent. You’re inconsistent. What should be said first, you said last. What should be said last, you said first. What you cogitated so … 
2. Dīgha Nikāya
    … DN 29  Pāsādika Sutta | The Inspiring Discourse  —  Toward the end of his life, the Buddha describes his accomplishment in establishing, through the Dhamma and Vinaya, a complete holy life that will endure after his passing. Listing some of the criticisms that might be leveled against him and his Dhamma-Vinaya, he shows how those criticisms should be refuted. DN 33  Saṅgīti Sutta | The Discourse … 
3. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 16 The Great Total Unbinding Discourse | Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta
    … This is the Dhamma, this is the Vinaya, this is the Teacher’s instruction.’ His statement is neither to be approved nor scorned. Without approval or scorn, take careful note of his words and make them stand against the suttas and tally them against the Vinaya. If, on making them stand against the suttas and tallying them against the Vinaya, you find that they … 
4. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 33 The Discourse for Reciting Together | Saṅgīti Sutta
    … They kept arguing, quarreling, & disputing, stabbing one another with weapons of the mouth: “You don’t understand this Dhamma-Vinaya. I understand this Dhamma-Vinaya. How could you understand this Dhamma-Vinaya? You practice wrongly. I practice rightly. I’m consistent. You’re inconsistent. What should be said first, you said last. What should be said last, you said first. What you cogitated so … 
5. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 12 To Lohicca | Lohicca Sutta
    … I say that such a thing is an evil, greedy deed, for what can one person do for another?’—he, speaking in this way, would be a creator of obstacles for those children of good family who, coming to the Dhamma & Vinaya revealed by the Tathāgata, attain the sort of grand distinction where they attain the fruit of stream-entry, the fruit of once … 
6. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 34 Progressing by Tens | Dasuttara Sutta
    … This sutta also differs from the preceding one in that it contains no material from the Vinaya, and there are proportionally fewer lists that do not appear in other suttas. As is the case with the preceding sutta, this sutta is hard to date. However, unlike that sutta—whose open-ended organization would have allowed succeeding generations to keep adding material to expand it … 
7. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 1 The Brahmā Net | Brahmajāla Sutta
    … In the Vinaya, the section of the Canon dealing with monastic rules, the Buddha’s reasons for formulating the rules fall into three main categories: to inspire faith in others, to help the monks and nuns cleanse their minds of defilement, and to foster harmony within the monastic communities. In the context of this sutta, the list of virtues seems focused primarily on rules … 
8. Handful of Leaves, Volume One DN 2 The Fruits of the Contemplative Life | Sāmaññaphala Sutta
    … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, & the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. This, too, is part of his virtue. “He abstains from damaging seed & plant life. “He eats only once a day, refraining from the evening meal and from food at the wrong time of … 
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