18. Origin (PLI-TV-PVR18)

There is the offence one falls into unconscious (that it is against ordinance), rises from conscious (that it is against ordinance); there is the offence one falls into conscious rises from unconscious …; there is the offence one falls into unconscious … rises from unconscious …; there is the offence one falls into conscious … rises from conscious (that it is against ordinance). There is the offence one of skilled mind falls into, one of skilled mind rises from; there is the offence one of skilled mind falls into, one of unskilled mind rises from; there is the offence one of skilled mind falls into, one of indeterminate mind rises from; there is the offence one of unskilled mind falls into, one of skilled mind rises from; there is the offence one of unskilled mind falls into, one of unskilled mind rises from; there is the offence one of unskilled mind falls into, one of indeterminate mind rises from; there is the offence one of indeterminate mind falls into, one of skilled mind rises from; there is the offence one of indeterminate mind falls into, one of unskilled mind rises from; there is the offence one of indeterminate mind falls into, one of indeterminate mind rises from.

Pārājika

From how many origins originates the first offence involving Defeat? The first offence involving Defeat originates from one origin: from body and mind, not from speech. From how many origins originates the second offence involving Defeat? … from three origins: it may be that it originates from body and mind, not from speech; it may be that it originates from speech and mind, not from body; it may be that it originates from body and speech and mind. From how many origins originates the third offence involving Defeat? … from three origins: it may be that it originates from body and mind, not from speech; it may be that it originates from speech and mind, not from body; it may be that it originates from body and speech and mind. From how many origins originates the fourth offence involving Defeat? … from three origins: it may be that it originates from body and mind, not from speech; it may be that it originates from speech and mind, not from body; it may be that it originates from body and speech and mind.

Concluded are the four Offences involving Defeat

Saṅghādisesa

From how many origins originates the offence requiring a Formal Meeting of the Order for emitting impurity using (the hand)? It originates from one origin: from body and mind, not from speech. From how many … for coming into physical contact with a woman? … from one origin: from body and mind, not from speech. From how many … for offending a woman with lewd words? … from three origins: it may originate from body and mind, not from speech; it may admonished up to the third time does not give up (his course)? … from one origin: it originates from body and speech and mind. From how many … for monks who are imitators of schismatics and on being admonished up to the third time do not give up (their course)? … from one origin: it originates from body and speech and mind. From how many … for a monk who is difficult to speak to and on being admonished up to the third time does not give up (his course)? … from one origin: it originates from body and speech and mind. From how many origins originates the offence requiring a Formal Meeting of the Order for a monk who brings a family into disrepute and on being admonished up to the third time does not give up (his course)? It originates from one origin: it originates from body and speech and mind.

Concluded are the Thirteen Offences entailing a Formal Meeting of the Order

Sekhiya

… From how many origins originates the offence of wrong-doing for relieving oneself or spitting in water, out of disrespect? The offence of wrong-doing for … out of disrespect originates from one origin: it originates from body and mind, not from speech.

Concluded are the Sekhiyas

Pārājika

From how many origins originate the four offences involving Defeat? The four offences involving Defeat originate from three origins: they may originate from body and mind, not from speech; they may originate from speech and mind, not from body; they may originate from body and speech and mind.

Saṅghādisesa

From how many … the thirteen offences requiring a Formal Meeting of the Order? … originate from six origins: they may originate from body, not from speech, not from mind; they … see Prv.18.2 … may originate from body and speech and mind.

Aniyata

From how many … the two Undetermined offences? … originate from three origins: they may originate from body and mind, not from speech; they may originate from speech and mind, not from body; they may originate from body and speech and mind.

Nissaggiya Pācittiya

From how many … the thirty offences of Forfeiture? … originate from six origins: they may originate from body, not from speech, not from mind … they may originate from body and speech and mind.

Pācittiya

From how many … the ninety-two offences of Expiation? … originate from six origins: they may originate from body, not from speech, not from mind … they may originate from body and speech and mind.

Pātidesanīya

From how many … the four offences to be Confessed? … originate from four origins: they may originate from body, not from speech, not from mind; they may originate from body and speech, not from mind; they may originate from body and mind, not from speech; they may originate from body and speech and mind.

Sekhiya

From how many origins originate the seventy-five Sekhiyas? The seventy-five Sekhiyas originate from three origins: they may originate from body and mind, not from speech; they may originate from speech and mind, not from body; they may originate from body and speech and mind.

Concluded is Origin

Its Summary

Unconscious, and also skilled,
and origin in every way:
Know well origin by the method
according to the rule. /

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