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1. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 33 The Greater Cowherd Discourse | Mahā Gopālaka Sutta
    … A cowherd endowed with these eleven factors is incapable of looking after a herd so that it prospers & grows. “A monk endowed with these eleven factors is incapable of attaining growth, increase, & abundance in this Dhamma-Vinaya. Which eleven? There is the case where a monk is not well-versed in forms, unskilled in characteristics, doesn’t pick out flies’ eggs, doesn’t dress … 
2. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 67 Near Cātumā | Cātuma Sutta
    … If they don’t get to see the Blessed One, there may be a change in them, there may be an alteration. “Just as when young seedlings don’t get water, there may be a change in them, there may be an alteration; in the same way, there are new monks here, not long gone forth, recently arrived at this Dhamma & Vinaya. If they … 
3. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 69 About Golissāni | Golissāni Sutta
    … There are those who will ask the wilderness-dwelling monk a question about the higher Dhamma & higher Vinaya. If he, when asked a question about the higher Dhamma & higher Vinaya, isn’t able to answer, there are those who would say of him, ‘What good has it done for this venerable wilderness-dweller to be alone in the wilderness, living independently, if he, when … 
4. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 48 In Kosambī | Kosambiyā Sutta
    … When the Dhamma & Vinaya proclaimed by the Tathāgata is being taught, he heeds it, gives it attention, engages it with all his mind, hears the Dhamma with eager ears. “He discerns that, ‘I am endowed with the strength of a person consummate in view.’ This is the sixth knowledge attained by him that is noble, transcendent, not held in common with run-of-the … 
5. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 40 The Shorter Discourse at Assapura | Cūḷa-Assapura Sutta
    … subdue his heat-induced fever. “In the same way, if a person from a noble-warrior family goes forth from the home life into homelessness and, on coming to this Dhamma & Vinaya proclaimed by the Tathāgata and thus developing goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, & equanimity, he gains stilling within, then he, I tell you, is practicing the practice proper to a contemplative. “If a person … 
6. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 107 To Gaṇaka Moggallāna | Gaṇaka Moggallāna Sutta
    … by-step training, a step-by-step activity, a step-by-step practice likewise be described in this Dhamma & Vinaya?” “Brahman, a step-by-step training, a step-by-step activity, a step-by-step practice can likewise be described in this Dhamma & Vinaya. Just as when a dexterous horse-tamer, on getting a fine thoroughbred colt, first makes it perform the task of … 
7. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 21 The Simile of the Saw | Kakacūpama Sutta
    … I needed only to arouse mindfulness in them. “So, monks, you, too, should abandon unskillful qualities and commit yourselves to skillful qualities, and in that way you, too, will come to growth, increase, & abundance in this Dhamma-Vinaya. Suppose, monks, that—not far from a village or town—there were a large sal-forest choked with castor-oil weeds. And suppose that some man … 
8. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 41 (Brahmans) of Sāla | Sāleyyaka Sutta
    … He speaks out of season, speaks what isn’t factual, what isn’t in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, & the Vinaya, words that are not worth treasuring: unseasonable, unreasonable, uncircumscribed, unconnected with the goal. “This is how there are four sorts of un-Dhamma conduct, dissonant conduct with speech. Unskillful Mental Action “And how are there three sorts of un-Dhamma conduct, dissonant … 
9. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 75 To Māgaṇḍiya | Māgaṇḍiya Sutta
    … Let me obtain the going forth in Master Gotama’s presence! Let me obtain the acceptance!” “Anyone, Māgaṇḍiya, who has previously belonged to another sect and who desires the going forth & acceptance in this Dhamma & Vinaya, must first undergo probation for four months. If, at the end of four months, the monks feel so moved, they give him the going forth & accept him into … 
10. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 11 The Shorter Lion’s Roar Discourse | Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta
     … He describes the comprehension of sensuality clinging, view clinging, habit-&-practice clinging, and doctrine-of-self clinging. “In a Dhamma & Vinaya of this sort, monks, it’s obvious that confidence in the teacher is rightly directed, confidence in the doctrine is rightly directed, the completion of virtues is rightly directed, and the dearness & agreeability of one’s companions is rightly directed. Why is that … 
11. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 113 A Person of Integrity | Sappurisa Sutta
     … This is the quality of a person of integrity. “And further, a person of no integrity is learned… a master of the Vinaya… a Dhamma-speaker. He notices, ‘I am a Dhamma-speaker, but these other monks are not Dhamma-speakers. He exalts himself for being a Dhamma-speaker and disparages others. This is the quality of a person of no integrity. “But a … 
12. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 38 The Greater Craving-Destruction Discourse | Mahā Taṇhāsaṅkhaya Sutta
     … He is totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.” —SN 22:39 “Just as the ocean has a single taste—that of salt—in the same way, this Dhamma-Vinaya has a single taste: that of release.” —Ud 5:5 In other words, the ability of the monks to give, in unison, the right answers to the Buddha’s questions does not fulfill … 
13. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 70 At Kīṭāgiri | Kīṭāgiri Sutta
     … Assaji and Punabbasu were two of the six ringleaders of the notorious “group-of-six” monks, whose misbehavior led to the formulation of many rules in the Vinaya. (The group is named after the number of ringleaders, not the number of members, which—according to the Commentary—reached more than one thousand.) In the origin story to Saṅghādisesa 13, the monks led by Assaji … 
14. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 12 The Great Lion’s Roar Discourse | Mahāsīhanāda Sutta
     … And on that occasion Sunakkhatta the Licchavi1 had recently left this Dhamma & Vinaya. He was making this statement in the Vesāli assembly: “Gotama the contemplative has no superior human state, no distinction in knowledge & vision worthy of a noble one. Having hammered it out through logic, Gotama the contemplative teaches a Dhamma that follows his reasoning, his own invention. And whenever his Dhamma is … 
15. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 51 To Kandaraka | Kandaraka Sutta
     … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, and the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. “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 day. “He abstains from dancing, singing … 
16. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 27 The Shorter Elephant Footprint Simile | Cūḷa Hatthipadopama Sutta
     … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, and the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. “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 day. “He abstains from dancing, singing … 
17. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 101 At Devadaha | Devadaha Sutta
     … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, and the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. “He abstains from damaging seed and plant life. “He eats only once a day, refraining from the evening meal and from food at the wrong time of day. “He abstains from dancing … 
18. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 22 The Water-Snake Simile | Alagaddūpama Sutta
     … term harm & suffering.”2 Then the Blessed One said to the monks, “What do you think, monks? Is this monk Ariṭṭha Formerly-of-the-Vulture-Killers even warm3 in this Dhamma & Vinaya?” “How could he be, lord? No, lord.” When this was said, the monk Ariṭṭha Formerly-of-the-Vulture-Killers sat silent, abashed, his shoulders drooping, his head down, brooding, at a loss … 
19. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 85 Prince Bodhi | Bodhirājakumāra Sutta
     … However, in Cv V.21—the section of the Vinaya prohibiting the act of stepping on cloth coverings—one of the exemptions (Cv V.21.4) deals precisely with situations where people specifically ask monks to step on cloth coverings for the sake of their good luck: In such a situation, monks may step on the cloth. So the Buddha’s reasoning with regard … 
20. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 60 A Safe Bet | Apaṇṇaka Sutta
     … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, and the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. “He abstains from damaging seed and plant life. “He eats only once a day, refraining from the evening meal and from food at the wrong time of day. “He abstains from dancing … 
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