… 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 …
… Virtue, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Vinaya Piṭaka.
2. Concentration, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Suttanta Piṭaka.
3. Discernment, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Abhidhamma Piṭaka.
Expressed in terms of their meaning, they refer to three modes of behavior to be developed –
1. Virtue: keeping our …
… It may seem paradoxical that, on one hand, here is a tradition that
holds very strictly to the Vinaya and has a very clear idea about what
is Dhamma and what’s not Dhamma, and yet they say, “Be ingenious. Be
resourceful.” But actually, there’s no paradox at all within the
parameters of what’s skillful and what’s not. You have to …
… In the succeeding days, the Vinaya
texts say that the Buddha taught the Dhamma to the remaining four
brethren, so that they all gained the Dhamma eye. We don’t know how
many days it took. But there’s a tradition in Thailand that on the
fifth day, he gave his second recorded sermon, which we chanted just
now. We know it now as …
… 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 …
… Ajaan Mun was still a wild monk, you
might say, living in the forest, eating only one meal a day, wandering
around, and being very strict about the Vinaya. That was why people
accused him of not following Thai or Laotian customs.
He would tell them he aspired to be a noble one, and if you want to
be a noble one, you have …
… Especially now with the
Internet, you can get all kinds of suttas, read lots about the Vinaya…
Are you taking advantage of that? We’ve got all these suttas in
translation. We’ve got the works of the ajaans in translation. If
you’re going to spend some time reading—read that.
Think about it, and think about what the Buddha said: When you …
… He taught Upali, the Vinaya expert, a series of tests. In every case, it was: When you put this into practice—and that’s what those conventions are meant for, to be put into practice—what are the results?
If a teaching leads to harm, there’s something wrong. It’s not the genuine article. If it makes you burdensome on other people, if …
… You see this in the legal texts, like the Vinaya. There would be many possible factors for an offense, so they’d run through all the various permutations, around the circle to show the verdict in each possible case. In this case, there are four truths and three levels of knowledge, so the sutta just goes around the list, one by one by one …
… If you tell yourself, “Well, I’ll just wait until my next lifetime,” he warns that the Dhamma and the Vinaya are going to deteriorate over time. The opportunities don’t get better. They get worse. So you make use of the opportunities you have now. In this case, you’re motivating yourself with a little bit of fear: the wise kind of fear …
… You see this in the legal texts, like the Vinaya. There would be many possible factors for an offense, so they’d run through all the various permutations, around the circle to show the verdict in each possible case. In this case, there are four truths and three levels of knowledge, so the sutta just goes around the list, one by one by one …
… If you tell yourself, “Well, I’ll just wait until my next lifetime,” he warns that the Dhamma and the Vinaya are going to deteriorate over time. The opportunities don’t get better. They get worse. So you make use of the opportunities you have now. In this case, you’re motivating yourself with a little bit of fear: the wise kind of fear …
… Think, for instance, of how some Mahāyāna traditions dropped the Vinaya’s procedures for dealing with teacher-student sexual abuse: Was this the Dhamma wisely adapting itself to their needs?
The Buddha foresaw that people would introduce what he called “synthetic Dhamma”—and when that happened, he said, the true Dhamma would disappear (SN 16:13). He compared the process to what happens when …
… However, it
wasn’t until later that he began legislating a Pāṭimokkha, a
code of rules, that eventually became the backbone of the
Vinaya. The events leading up to the legislation of the first
rule in the Pāṭimokkha are these:
At that time, the Awakened One, the Blessed One, was dwelling
in Verañjā at the foot of Naḷeru’s nimba tree with a
large …
In the principles that the Buddha taught to his stepmother,
Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī on how to distinguish what is Dhamma and Vinaya
and what is not, there are three that have to do with how your
practice affects other people.
The first is that genuine Dhamma leads to modesty. In other words, you
don’t go bragging about your attainments or about how much you …
CHAPTER SIX
Aniyata
This term means “indefinite.” The rules in this section do not assign definite or fixed penalties, but instead give procedures by which the Community may pass judgment when a bhikkhu in uncertain circumstances is accused of having committed an offense. There are two training rules here.
1
Should any bhikkhu sit in private, alone with a woman on a seat secluded …
… It was because of the Buddha’s teaching that illnesses should be treated whenever possible that the Vinaya—the collection of rules for the monks and nuns—includes detailed instructions on medical treatments and medicines for a wide variety of diseases. In fact, it was through the spread of the Dhamma and Vinaya throughout South, Southeast, and Central Asia that Indian medical knowledge spread …
… But with only a few exceptions, the
Canon limits its accounts to incidents that carried lessons in
Dhamma & Vinaya.
This chapter begins with one of the few exceptions: a poem
attributed to Ven. Kāludāyin, a monk not otherwise identified
in the Vinaya or the four nikāyas. The Commentary asserts that,
as a lay person, he was sent by the Buddha’s father to invite …
… As we noted under NP 23, the Vinaya-mukha—arguing from the parallel between sugar cane juice, which is a juice drink, and sugar, which is made by boiling sugar cane juice—maintains that boiled juice would fit under sugar in the five tonics. This opinion, however, is not accepted in all Communities. In those that do accept it, pasteurized juice, juice concentrates, and …
… The Vinaya-mukha seems more correct in using the Great Standards to say that all forms of sugar and molasses, no matter what the source, would be included here. Thus maple syrup and beet-sugar would come under this rule.
The Vinaya-mukha—arguing from the parallel between sugar cane juice, which is a juice drink, and sugar, which is made by boiling sugar …
MN 113 Sappurisa Sutta | A Person of Integrity
… 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 …
Discernment | Basic Themes
… Virtue, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Vinaya Piṭaka. 2. Concentration, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Suttanta Piṭaka. 3. Discernment, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. Expressed in terms of their meaning, they refer to three modes of behavior to be developed – 1. Virtue: keeping our …
