… The Vinaya-mukha and the Thai translator of the Commentary object strongly to this interpretation, the Vinaya-mukha adding sarcastically, “How fortunate we are that the Buddha allowed us to confess multiple offenses collectively under the term ‘sambahulā,’ for what would we do if we had to count such things?” The only leniency granted by the Commentary is an allowance for touching the lodging …
… 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 …
… Merit for the Deceased
Paṭicca Samuppāda | Dependent Co-arising
Heedfulness
The Three Inspired Verses
The House Builder
The Mountain
Noble Wealth
An Auspicious Day
The Three Characteristics
Bhāra-sutta Gāthā | Verses from the Discourses on the Burden
Dhammasaṅgaṇī Mātikā Pāṭha | The List from the Dhamma Groupings
The Council Chant
Vinaya | Discipline
Sutta | Discourses
Abhidhamma | Higher Dhamma
Dhamma-saṅgaṇī | Classification of Qualities
Vibhaṅga | Analysis
Dhātu …
… He
decided he would set up the Dhamma and Vinaya so that it would last
for a long time. That was a big project. Gaining awakening took six
years. Setting up the Dhamma and Vinaya took forty-five.
Every time he gave a talk, it was with a purpose. If he could get
people to gain awakening by listening to the talk, that’s …
… Dhamma as not-Dhamma;
not-Dhamma as Dhamma;
Vinaya as not-Vinaya;
not-Vinaya as Vinaya;
what was not spoken by the Buddha as having been spoken by him;
what was spoken by the Buddha as not;
what was not regularly practiced by him as having been regularly practiced by him;
what was regularly practiced by him as not;
what was not formulated by …
… idha sārīputta bhikkhu adhammaṁ dhammoti dīpeti dhammaṁ adhammoti dīpeti avinayaṁ vinayoti dīpeti vinayaṁ avinayoti dīpeti
“Here, Sāriputta, a monk explains not-Dhamma as ‘Dhamma’, Dhamma as ‘not-Dhamma’, not-Vinaya as ‘Vinaya’, Vinaya as ‘not-Vinaya’,
abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatena bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatena abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti
“what was not spoken, not mentioned by the Tathāgata as ‘spoken, mentioned by the …
… And look at all the rules in the Vinaya for the monks to look after the monastery. Basically, the monastery is pure generosity. If you were to open your eyes right now and look around, everything you’d see would be somebody’s gift. And as for the monks, the longer you live as a monk, the more and more the very bones of …
… cross-examining a monk accused of an offense against the Vinaya. In the preliminary stage of a Vinaya cross-examination, a learned monk is questioned about the rules relevant to the planned accusation in a way that (1) establishes, for those who may have not yet learned it, the general framework of principles on which the specific action is to be judged; and (2 …
… The Vinaya—the collection of the Buddha’s rules for governing monastic life—charts a middle course between these two extremes. The rules show how the Buddha himself worked out the practical details on how to apply the principles of goodwill and virtue to this specific issue.
On the one hand, he didn’t subscribe to the notion that medical treatment should try to …
… In fact, some of the details of the precepts he taught to the king are
not even in the Vinaya. He describes right action, right speech, right
livelihood, training in contentment, training in mindfulness and
alertness, training in concentration, training in the skills that come
from concentration, and finally release: That’s the fruit of the
contemplative life, the highest of the fruits.
As …
… This is what it means to be totally destroyed in the Dhamma & Vinaya, when the Tathāgata doesn’t regard one as being worth speaking to or admonishing, and one’s observant companions in the holy life don’t regard one as being worth speaking to or admonishing.”
“Yes, lord, wouldn’t one be totally destroyed if the Tathāgata doesn’t regard one as being …
… teachings.
Uposatha: Observance day, coinciding with the full moon, new moon, and half moons. Lay Buddhists often observe the eight precepts on this day. “Uposatha” also refers to the ceremony in which monks meet to listen to the recitation of the Pāṭimokkha on the full moon and new moon uposathas.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
… Of particular interest is the inclusion of the fourteen duties or protocols (vatta) from the Vinaya, which stress the way in which training in meditation is a form of apprenticeship. This is a distinctive feature of the Wilderness tradition, in that these duties have been abandoned by many other Buddhist practice traditions.
Duties of the Saṅgha is somewhat different sort of treatise, in that …
… He started studying the Vinaya and the Dhamma, and
realized that the Vinaya as it was practiced in his monastery was
pretty sloppy. As for the practice of the Dhamma, nobody spoke
anything about meditation. He felt that something was really lacking.
Finally, in his second year as a monk, he met Ajaan Lee, who happened
to wander into Chanthaburi. He went to listen …
… We think of the Forest Tradition as being rough and ready and
non-scholarly—and it is very much anti-scholarly in a lot of ways—but
that doesn’t mean that the forest ajaans were not well read in the
Dhamma or the Vinaya. They knew their Dhamma really well; they knew
their Vinaya really well. It’s just that they realized that …
… The Vinaya-mukha, noting that the prohibition against using a mirror comes in the context of rules against beautifying the face, argues that looking at one’s reflection for other purposes—for example, as an aid in shaving the head or the beard—should be allowed. Alternatively, it might be argued that the use of a mirror while shaving would lessen the danger of …
… also denotes any of his arahant disciples.
Upādāna: The act of clinging to something to take sustenance from it. The activities that, when clung to, constitute suffering are the five khandhas. The clinging itself takes four forms: to sensuality, to habits & practices, to views, and to theories about the self.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
… He said to follow the Vinaya; they follow the Vinaya. He said to develop right concentration, which means jhana. Okay, they do that. Then they look at what they’re doing to see how it helps in bringing suffering to an end.
What this means in practice is that you learn how to question your efforts in terms of the four noble truths until …
… The Vinaya-mukha argues that this rule should take precedence in cases where a particular lie would entail only a dukkaṭa under any of the other rules—as in the last example—but this contradicts the Vibhaṅga.
Non-offenses
A bhikkhu who misrepresents the truth unintentionally commits no offense under this rule. The Vibhaṅga gives two examples: speaking quickly and saying one thing while …
… 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 …
Lodgings | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
… The Vinaya-mukha and the Thai translator of the Commentary object strongly to this interpretation, the Vinaya-mukha adding sarcastically, “How fortunate we are that the Buddha allowed us to confess multiple offenses collectively under the term ‘sambahulā,’ for what would we do if we had to count such things?” The only leniency granted by the Commentary is an allowance for touching the lodging …
MN 40 Cūḷa-Assapura Sutta | The Shorter Discourse at Assapura
… 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 …
MvX: kosambakakkhandhako
… idha sārīputta bhikkhu adhammaṁ dhammoti dīpeti dhammaṁ adhammoti dīpeti avinayaṁ vinayoti dīpeti vinayaṁ avinayoti dīpeti “Here, Sāriputta, a monk explains not-Dhamma as ‘Dhamma’, Dhamma as ‘not-Dhamma’, not-Vinaya as ‘Vinaya’, Vinaya as ‘not-Vinaya’, abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatena bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatena abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti “what was not spoken, not mentioned by the Tathāgata as ‘spoken, mentioned by the …
