… In fact, the Vinaya-mukha states that if he does not pick up the valuable and put it in safe-keeping, he incurs a dukkaṭa. None of the other texts mention this point, although it is probably justified on the grounds that the bhikkhu is neglecting his duty in not following the “proper course” here.
The Vibhaṅga advises that if a bhikkhu has picked …
… He gave her some principles for figuring out how to
recognize what is Dhamma and Vinaya and what’s not. There are eight
principles altogether, and they fall into three categories.
The first category has to do with the goal of the practice: “Does this
teaching, when I put into practice, lead to dispassion, does it lead
to unfettering the mind?” If it does …
… who has attained the highest religious goal. In Buddhism, it usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples.
Upādāna: Clinging; the act of taking sustenance.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
Vipassanā: Insight.
Yakkha: Spirit; a lower level of deva—sometimes friendly to human beings, sometimes not—often dwelling in …
… The Buddha’s own name for the religion he founded was, ‘this Dhamma-Vinaya’ – this Doctrine and Discipline.
Vipassanūpakkilesa: Corruption of insight; intense experiences that can happen in the course of meditation and can lead one to believe that one has completed the path. The standard list includes ten: light, psychic knowledge, rapture, serenity, pleasure, extreme conviction, excessive effort, obsession, indifference, contentment.
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If these …
… the Vinaya for the monks, which is not just for the monks,
as Ajaan Suwat once pointed out. When lay people live around monks who
are observing the Vinaya, they get more sensitive, too. The whole
purpose of the rules is to detect where there’s some slight greed,
some slight anger, some slight lust. As you keep careful watch over
your behavior, you …
… After all, the Buddha
himself used medicine, and the Vinaya, the collection of the monks’
rules, is full of information on different medicines for treating
different illnesses. In fact, it was through the Vinaya that a lot of
Indian ways of doing medicine spread throughout Asia.
As he said, there are some illnesses that respond to medicine, others
that will go away whether you …
… Again, the Buddha doesn’t
use this term but there are lots of examples in the Canon, especially
in the Vinaya, of the Buddha’s humor. And it’s interesting that
they’re in the Vinaya. Because, after all, part of presenting the
rules is to make you want to follow them. And if you can laugh at the
behavior of the person who …
… sensuality, to habits & practices, to views, and to theories about the self.
Uposatha: Observance day, coinciding with the full moon, new moon, and half moons. Lay Buddhists often observe the eight precepts on this day. Monks recite the Pāṭimokkha, the monastic code, on the full moon and new moon uposathas.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
… 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 one is made impure in four ways by verbal action.
Unskillful Mental Action
“And how is one made impure in three ways by mental action? There …
… Which five? There is the case where a monk is a listener, a destroyer, a protector, an endurer, and a goer.
“And how is a monk a listener? There is the case where, when the Dhamma & Vinaya declared by the Tathāgata is being taught, a monk pays attention, applies his whole mind, and lends ear to the Dhamma. This is how a monk is …
… But those monks who were new—not long gone forth, recently come to this Dhamma & Vinaya—slept until sunrise, snoring.
The Blessed One, with his divine eye, purified & surpassing the human—saw those monks sleeping until sunrise, snoring. Seeing them, he went to the meeting hall and sat down on a seat made ready. Seated, he said to the monks, “Monks, where is Sāriputta …
… When you read something like that, a good way to take a reality check
is to look in the Vinaya, because that shows how the Buddha would deal
with real life issues, not just abstractions. And it’s obvious from
the Vinaya that your perceptions can either be objectively true or
false. Many of the rules make allowances for cases where you perceive
something …
… The Sub-commentary to the Vinaya defines rancid urine as any sort of urine at all, citing as a parallel the Pali expression pūti-kāya, decomposing body, which refers to any human body, living or dead, “even one with golden skin.” However, it does not say whether rancid urine medicine is the rancid urine itself or, as suggested by the example from the commentaries …
… We don’t think of the Pali
Canon as a humorous document, but that’s because most of us don’t read
the Vinaya. The Vinaya has lots of good stories about monks and nuns
behaving in really silly ways, foolish ways, and they’re often very
funny. And you can see why they have stories like that in the
Vinaya—they’re trying …
… We see this often in the Vinaya, the rules that the monks have to follow. The severity of the punishment for breaking a rule, in many cases, is measured by how you perceive the object you’re involved with at the moment you’re involved with it. For instance, if, with lustful intent, a monk touches a woman while perceiving her to be a …
When you study the rules in the Vinaya, you see the huge role that
perception plays in determining offenses. Say you see a little black
spot on the sidewalk, you think it’s just a little black spot, and you
step on it. You perceive it as just a black spot. If it turns out it
was a bug, the fact that you didn …
… Complaining that the Community acted out of favoritism is a pācittiya offense. (Pc 81)
When the Community is dealing formally with an issue, the full Community must be present, as must all the individuals involved in the issue; the proceedings must follow the patterns set out in the Dhamma and Vinaya. (As 1)
If the Community unanimously believes that a bhikkhu is innocent of …
… Sometimes we have a tendency to disregard the Vinaya, thinking well, it’s just a bunch of rules from old times that may or may not be applicable now. But a lot of the rules have to do with this: how to behave in an economy of gifts, in a culture of gifts. Because the principle of gift giving goes way back much earlier …
… Ajaan Mun and Ajaan Sao were accused of not following
Thai traditions, Thai customs as they were eating out of the bowl,
living in the forest, being very strict about the Vinaya. But as Ajaan
Mun would say, he wasn’t interested in following Thai customs or Lao
customs or the customs of any country, any society, because those are
the customs of people …
… Not long afterward, the Blessed One addressed the monks: “Monks, even a monk who has long penetrated the Dhamma in this Dhamma & Vinaya would do well, periodically & righteously, to refute the wanderers of other persuasions in just the way Vajjiya Māhita the householder has done.”
See also: DN 2; DN 16; MN 19; SN 42:8; AN 2:19; AN 3:62; AN 3 …
Pācittiya Nine: The Valuable Chapter | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
… In fact, the Vinaya-mukha states that if he does not pick up the valuable and put it in safe-keeping, he incurs a dukkaṭa. None of the other texts mention this point, although it is probably justified on the grounds that the bhikkhu is neglecting his duty in not following the “proper course” here. The Vibhaṅga advises that if a bhikkhu has picked …
AN 10:165 Cunda Kammāraputta Sutta | To Cunda the Silversmith
… 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 one is made impure in four ways by verbal action. Unskillful Mental Action “And how is one made impure in three ways by mental action? There …
