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6. The section on sixes

“There are six kinds of disrespect. —204

There are six kinds of respect. —205

There are six grounds of training. —206

There are six proper ways. —207

There are six originations of offenses. —

There are six offenses involving cutting. —208

There are six ways of committing an offense. —209

There are six benefits of being an expert on the Monastic Law. —210

There are six rules about ‘at the most’. —211

One may be stay apart from one’s three robes for six days. —

There are six kinds of robe-cloth. —

There are six kinds of dye. —

There are six kinds of offenses that originate from body and mind, not from speech. —212

There are six kinds of offenses that originate from speech and mind, not from body. —213

There are six kinds of offenses that originate from body, speech, and mind. —214

There are six kinds of legal procedures. —215

There are six roots of disputes. —216

There are six roots of accusations. —217

There are six aspects of friendliness. —218

Six standard handspans in length. —219

Six handspans wide. —220

There are six reasons why the formal support from a teacher comes to an end. —221

There are six additions to the rule on bathing. —222

One takes an unfinished robe and leaves the monastery. —223

One leaves the monastery with an unfinished robe.224

When a monk has six qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

he has (1) the virtue, (2) stillness, (3) wisdom, (4) freedom, and (5) the knowledge and vision of freedom of one who is fully trained, and (6) he has ten or more years of seniority.

When a monk has six other qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

(1) he has the virtue of one who is fully trained himself and encourages others in it;

(2) he has the stillness of one who is fully trained himself and encourages others in it;

(3) he has the wisdom of one who is fully trained himself and encourages others in it;

(4) he has the freedom of one who is fully trained himself and encourages others in it;

(5) he has the knowledge and vision of freedom of one who is fully trained himself and encourages others in it;

(6) he has ten or more years of seniority.

When a monk has six other qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

he has (1) faith, (2) conscience, (3) moral prudence, (4) energy, (5) mindfulness, and (6) ten or more years of seniority.

When a monk has six other qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

(1) he has not failed in the higher morality; (2) he has not failed in the higher conduct; (3) he has not failed in the higher view; (4) he is learned; (5) he is wise; (6) he has ten or more years of seniority.

When a monk has six other qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

he is capable of three things in regard to a student: (1) to nurse him or have him nursed when he is sick; (2) to send him away or have him sent away when he is discontent with the spiritual life; (3) to use the Teaching to dispel anxiety. And (4) he knows the offenses; (5) he knows how offenses are cleared; and (6) he has ten or more years of seniority.

When a monk has six other qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

he is capable of five things in regard to a student: (1) to train him in good conduct; (2) to train him in the basics of the spiritual life; (3) to train him in the Teaching; (4) to train him in the Monastic Law; and (5) to use the Teaching to make him give up wrong views. And (6) he has ten or more years of seniority.

When a monk has six other qualities, he may give the full ordination, give formal support, and have a novice monk attend on him:

(1) he knows the offenses; (2) he knows the non-offenses; (3) he knows the light offenses; (4) he knows the heavy offenses; (5) he has properly learned both Monastic Codes in detail, and he has analyzed them well, thoroughly mastered them, and investigated them well, both in terms of the rules and their detailed exposition; (6) he has ten or more years of seniority.

There are six kinds of illegitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. —225

There are six kinds of legitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code.”226

The section on sixes is finished.

This is the summary:

“Disrespect, and respect,

Training, and also proper ways;

Originations, and cutting,

Ways, and with benefit.

And ‘at the most’, six days,

Robe-cloth, and kinds of dye;

And from body and mind,

And from speech and mind.

And from body, speech and mind,

Legal procedure, and dispute;

Accusations, and in length,

Wide, and with formal support.

Additions to the rule, takes,

And so with;

Fully trained, one who encourages,

Faith, and with higher morality;

Sick, good conduct,

Offense, illegitimate, legitimate.”

7. The section on sevens

“There are seven kinds of offenses. —227

There are seven classes of offenses. —228

There are seven grounds of training. —229

There are seven proper ways. —230

There are seven illegitimate ways of acting according to what has been admitted. —231

There are seven legitimate ways of acting according to what has been admitted. —232

There is no offense in going for seven days to seven kinds of people. —233

There are seven benefits of being an expert on the Monastic Law. —234

There are seven rules about ‘at the most’. —235

There is becoming subject to relinquishment at dawn on the seventh day. —236

There are seven principles for settling legal issues. —

There are seven kinds of legal procedures. —237

There are seven kinds of raw grain. —238

It is seven wide inside. —239

There are seven additions to the rule on eating in a group. —240

After being received, the tonics should be used from storage for at most seven days. —241

One takes a finished robe and leaves the monastery. —242

One leaves the monastery with a finished robe. —243

A monk doesn’t have any offense he needs to recognize. —244

A monk does have an offense he needs to recognize. —

A monk has an offense he needs to make amends for. —245

There are seven kinds of illegitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. —246

There are seven kinds of legitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code.247

When a monk has seven qualities, he is an expert on the Monastic Law:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He is virtuous and restrained by the Monastic Code. His conduct is good, he associates with the right people, and he sees danger in minor faults. And he undertakes and trains in the training rules. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When a monk has seven other qualities, he is an expert on the Monastic Law:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He has learned much, and he retains and accumulates what he has learned. Those teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, that have a true goal and are well articulated, and that set out the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life—he has learned many such teachings, retained them in mind, recited them verbally, mentally investigated them, and penetrated them well by view. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When a monk has seven other qualities, he is an expert on the Monastic Law:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He has properly learned both Monastic Codes in detail; he has analyzed them well, thoroughly mastered them, and investigated them well, both in terms of the rules and their detailed exposition. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When a monk has seven other qualities, he is an expert on the Monastic Law:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He recollects many past lives, that is, one birth, two births, three births, four births, five births, ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births; many eons of world dissolution, many eons of world evolution, many eons of both dissolution and evolution; and he knows: ‘There I had such a name, such a family, such an appearance, such food, such an experience of pleasure and pain, and such a lifespan. Passing away from there, I was reborn elsewhere, and there I had such a name, such a family, such an appearance, such food, such an experience of pleasure and pain, and such a lifespan. Passing away from there, I was reborn here.’ In this way he recollects many past lives with their characteristics and particulars. (6) With superhuman and purified clairvoyance, he sees beings passing away and getting reborn, inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, gone to good destinations and to bad destinations, and he understands how beings pass on according to their actions: ‘These beings who engaged in misconduct by body, speech, and mind, who abused the noble ones, who had wrong views and acted accordingly, at the breaking up of the body after death, have been reborn in a lower realm, a bad destination, a world of misery, hell. But these beings who engaged in good conduct of body, speech, and mind, who did not abuse the noble ones, who held right view and acted accordingly, at the breaking up of the body after death, have been reborn in a good destination, a heaven world.’ In this way, with superhuman and purified clairvoyance, he sees beings passing away and getting reborn, inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, gone to good destinations and to bad destinations, and he understands how beings pass on according to their actions. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has seven qualities, he shines:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He is virtuous and restrained by the Monastic Code. His conduct is good, he associates with the right people, and he sees danger in minor faults. And he undertakes and trains in the training rules. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has seven qualities, he shines:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He has learned much, and he retains and accumulates what he has learned. Those teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, that have a true goal and are well articulated, and that set out the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life—he has learned many such teachings, retained them in mind, recited them verbally, mentally investigated them, and penetrated them well by view. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has seven qualities, he shines:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He has properly learned both Monastic Codes in detail; he has analyzed them well, thoroughly mastered them, and investigated them well, both in terms of the rules and their detailed exposition. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has seven qualities, he shines:

(1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He recollects many past lives, that is, one birth, two births, three births, four births, five births, ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births; many eons of world dissolution, many eons of world evolution, many eons of both dissolution and evolution; and he knows: ‘There I had such a name, such a family, such an appearance, such food, such an experience of pleasure and pain, and such a lifespan. Passing away from there, I was reborn elsewhere, and there I had such a name, such a family, such an appearance, such food, such an experience of pleasure and pain, and such a lifespan. Passing away from there, I was reborn here.’ In this way he recollects many past lives with their characteristics and particulars. (6) With superhuman and purified clairvoyance, he sees beings passing away and getting reborn, inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, gone to good destinations and to bad destinations, and he understands how beings pass on according to their actions: ‘These beings who engaged in misconduct by body, speech, and mind, who abused the noble ones, who had wrong views and acted accordingly, at the breaking up of the body after death, have been reborn in a lower realm, a bad destination, a world of misery, hell. But these beings who engaged in good conduct of body, speech, and mind, who did not abuse the noble ones, who held right view and acted accordingly, at the breaking up of the body after death, have been reborn in a good destination, a heaven world.’ In this way, with superhuman and purified clairvoyance, he sees beings passing away and getting reborn, inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, gone to good destinations and to bad destinations, and he understands how beings pass on according to their actions. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.

There are seven bad qualities:

one has no faith, conscience, or moral prudence; and one is ignorant, lazy, absentminded, and foolish. —

There are seven good qualities:

one has faith, conscience, and moral prudence; and one is learned, energetic, mindful, and wise.”

The section on sevens is finished.

This is the summary:

“Offense, classes of offenses,

Training, and proper ways;

Illegitimate, and legitimate,

And seven days is no offense.

Benefits, ‘at the most’,

Dawn, and with settling;

Legal procedures, and kinds of raw grain,

Wide, eating in a group.

At most seven days, takes,

And so with;

Doesn’t, does, and does,

Illegitimate and legitimate.

Four about experts on the Monastic Law,

And four about monks who shine;

And seven bad qualities,

Seven good qualities have been taught.”

8. The section on eights

“When you see eight benefits, you should not eject a monk for not recognizing an offense. —248

When you see eight benefits, you should confess an offense even out of confidence in the others. —249

There are eight ‘after the third’. —250

There are eight ways of corrupting families. —251

There are eight key phrases for the giving of robe-cloth. —252

There are eight key phrases for when the robe season comes to an end. —253

There are eight kinds of drinks. —254

Because he was overcome and consumed by eight bad qualities, Devadatta is irredeemably destined to an eon in hell. —255

There are eight worldly phenomena. —256

There are eight important principles. —257

There are eight offenses entailing acknowledgment. —258

Lying has eight factors. —259

The observance day has eight factors. —260

There are eight qualities of a qualified messenger. —261

There are eight proper conducts of monastics of other religions. —262

The great ocean has eight amazing qualities. —263

This spiritual path has eight amazing qualities. —264

There are eight ‘not left overs’. —265

There are eight ‘left overs’. —266

There is becoming subject to relinquishment at dawn on the eighth day. —267

There are eight offenses entailing expulsion. —268

When she fulfills the eight parts, she should be expelled. —269

When she fulfills the eight parts, even if she confesses, it is not actually confessed. —

There is full ordination with eight statements. —270

One should stand up for eight people. —271

One should offer a seat to eight people. —272

The female lay follower who asked for eight favors. —273

When a monk has eight qualities, he may be appointed as an instructor of the nuns. —274

There are eight benefits of being an expert on the Monastic Law. —275

There are eight rules about ‘at the most’. —276

A monk who has had a legal procedure of further penalty done against him should behave properly in eight respects. —277

There are eight kinds of illegitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. —278

There are eight kinds of legitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code.”279

The section on eights is finished.

This is the summary:

“Not that monk, even in the others,

For the third time, corrupting;

Key phrases, the robe season coming to an end,

Drinks, and with overcome by.

Worldly phenomena, important principles,

Offenses entailing acknowledgment, lying;

And observance days, qualities of a qualified messenger,

Monastics of other religions, and also of the ocean.

Amazing, not left over,

Left over, subject to relinquishment;

Offenses entailing expulsion, parts,

Not actually confessed, full ordination.

One should stand up for, and seat,

Favor, and with an instructor;

Benefits, ‘at the most’,

Behaving in eight respects;

Illegitimate, and legitimate,

The section on eights has been well proclaimed.”

9. The section on nines

“There are nine grounds for resentment. —280

There are nine ways of getting rid of resentment. —281

There are nine grounds of training. —282

There are nine immediate offenses. —283

The Sangha is split by a group of nine. —284

There are nine fine foods. —285

There is an offense of wrong conduct for eating nine kinds of meat. —286

There are nine ways of reciting the Monastic Code. —287

There are nine rules about ‘at the most’. —288

There are nine things rooted in craving. —289

There are nine kinds of conceit. —290

There are nine kinds of robes that should be determined. —291

There are nine kinds of robes that should not be assigned to another. —292

Nine standard handspans long. —293

There are nine illegitimate kinds of gifts. —294

There are nine illegitimate kinds of receiving. —295

There are nine illegitimate kinds of possession. —

There are three legitimate kinds of gifts, three legitimate kinds of receiving, and three legitimate kinds of possession. —296

There are nine illegitimate ways of winning over. —297

There are nine legitimate ways of winning over. —298

There are two groups of nine on illegitimate legal procedures. —299

There are two groups of nine on legitimate legal procedures. —300

There are nine kinds of illegitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. —301

There are nine kinds of legitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code.”302

The section on nines is finished.

This is the summary:

“Grounds for resentment, getting rid of,

Training, and with immediate;

And is split, and fine,

Meat, reciting, and ‘at the most’.

Craving, conceit, determined,

And assignment to another, handspans;

Gifts, kinds of receiving, kinds of possession,

Again threefold legitimate kinds.

Illegitimate ways of winning over, and legitimate ways of winning over,

And twice two groups of nine;

Cancellations of the Monastic Code,

Illegitimate, and legitimate.”

10. The section on tens

“There are ten grounds for resentment. —303

There are ten ways of getting rid of resentment. —304

There are ten grounds of training. —305

There are ten subject matters of wrong view. —306

There are ten subject matters of right view. —307

There are ten extreme views. —308

There are ten kinds of wrongness. —309

There are ten kinds of rightness. —310

There are ten ways of doing unskillful deeds. —311

There are ten ways of doing skillful deeds. —

There are ten reasons why a vote is illegitimate. —312

There are ten reasons why a vote is legitimate. —313

There are ten training rules for novice monks. —314

A novice monk who has ten qualities should be expelled.315

When an expert on the Monastic Law has ten qualities, he is considered ignorant:

(1) he does not grasp what is proper for himself to say; (2) he does not grasp what is proper for others to say; (3-5) not grasping either, he makes them act illegitimately, without their admission; (6) he does not know the offenses; (7) he does not know the roots of the offenses; (8) he does not know the origin of the offenses; (9) he does not know the ending of the offenses; (10) he does not know the way leading to the ending of the offenses.316

But when an expert on the Monastic Law has ten qualities, he is considered learned:

(1) he grasps what is proper for himself to say; (2) he grasps what is proper for others to say; (3-5) grasping both, he makes them act legitimately, in accordance with their admission; (6) he knows the offenses; (7) he knows the roots of the offenses; (8) he knows the origin of the offenses; (9) he knows the ending of the offenses; (10) he knows the way leading to the ending of the offenses.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has ten other qualities, he is considered ignorant:

(1) he does not know the legal issues; (2) he does not know the root of the legal issues; (3) he does not know the origin of the legal issues; (4) he does not know the ending of the legal issues; (5) he does not know the way leading to the ending of the legal issues; (6) he does not know the actions that are the bases for offenses; (7) he does not know the origin stories; (8) he does not know the rules; (9) he does not know the additions to the rules; (10) he does not know the sequence of statements.

But when an expert on the Monastic Law has ten qualities, he is considered learned:

(1) he knows legal issues; (2) he knows the root of the legal issues; (3) he knows the origin of the legal issues; (4) he knows the ending of the legal issues; (5) he knows the way leading to the ending of the legal issues; (6) he knows the actions that are the bases for offenses; (7) he knows the origin stories; (8) he knows the rules; (9) he knows the additions to the rules; (10) he knows the sequence of statements.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has ten other qualities, he is considered ignorant:

(1) he does not know the motion; (2) he does not know how the motion is done; (3) he is not skilled in what comes first; (4) he is not skilled in what comes afterwards; (5) he does not know the right time; (6) he does not know the offenses and non-offenses; (7) he does not know the light and heavy offenses; (8) he does not know the curable and incurable offenses; (9) he does not know the grave and minor offenses; (10) he has not well-learned or well-remembered his teachers’ tradition.

But when an expert on the Monastic Law has ten qualities, he is considered learned:

(1) he knows the motion; (2) he knows how the motion is done; (3) he is skilled in what comes first; (4) he is skilled in what comes afterwards; (5) he knows the right time; (6) he knows the offenses and non-offenses; (7) he knows the light and heavy offenses; (8) he knows the curable and incurable offenses; (9) he knows the grave and minor offenses; (10) he has well-learned and well-remembered his teachers’ tradition.

When an expert on the Monastic Law has ten other qualities, he is considered ignorant:

(1) he does not know the offenses and non-offenses; (2) he does not know the light and heavy offenses; (3) he does not know the curable and incurable offenses; (4) he does not know the grave and minor offenses; (5) he has not properly learned both Monastic Codes in detail, not having analyzed them well, thoroughly mastered them, and investigated them well, both in terms of the rules and their detailed exposition; (6) he does not know the offenses and non-offenses; (7) he does not know the light and heavy offenses; (8) he does not know the curable and incurable offenses; (9) he does not know the grave and minor offenses; (10) he is not skilled in deciding legal issues.317

But when an expert on the Monastic Law has ten qualities, he is considered learned:

(1) he knows the offenses and non-offenses; (2) he knows the light and heavy offenses; (3) he knows the curable and incurable offenses; (4) he knows the grave and minor offenses; (5) he has properly learned both Monastic Codes in detail, having analyzed them well, thoroughly mastered them, and investigated them well, both in terms of the rules and their detailed exposition; (6) he knows the offenses and non-offenses; (7) he knows the light and heavy offenses; (8) he knows the curable and incurable offenses; (9) he knows the grave and minor offenses; (10) he is skilled in deciding legal issues.

A monk who has ten qualities may be appointed to a committee. —318

The Buddha laid down the training rules for his disciples for ten reasons. —319

There are ten dangers of entering a royal compound. —320

There are ten reasons for giving. —321

There are ten precious things. —322

A sangha of monks consisting of a group of ten. —

A group of ten may give the full ordination. —

There are ten kinds of rags. —323

There are ten kinds of robe wearing. —324

One should keep an extra robe for ten days at the most. —325

There are ten kinds of semen. —326

There are ten kinds of women. —327

There are ten kinds of wives. —328

The ten practices proclaimed as allowable at Vesālī. —329

There are ten kinds of people a monk should not pay respect to. —330

There are ten kinds of abuse. —331

There are ten ways of engaging in malicious talebearing. —332

There are ten kinds of furniture. —333

They asked for ten favors. —334

There are ten kinds of illegitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. —335

There are the ten legitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. —336

These are the ten benefits of congee. —337

There are ten kinds of unallowable meat. —338

There are ten rules on ‘at the most’. —339

A competent and capable monk who has ten years of seniority may give the going forth, the full ordination, and formal support, and may have a novice monk attend on him. —

A competent and capable nun who has ten years of seniority may give the going forth, the full ordination, and formal support, and may have a novice nun attend on her. —340

A competent and capable nun who has ten years of seniority may agree to be approved to give the full admission. —

The training may be given to a married girl who is ten years old.”

The section on tens is finished.

This is the summary:

“Resentment, getting rid of, grounds,

Wrong, and right, extreme;

And kinds of wrongness, kinds of rightness,

Unskillful, and also skillful.

An illegitimate vote, legitimate,

Novice monks, and expelling;

To say, and legal issue,

Motion, and light.

These light and heavy,

Understand the dark and bright;

And committee, and training,

And compound, reasons.

Precious thing, and a group of ten,

And so the full ordination;

Rag, and wearing,

Ten days, semen, women.

Wives, ten practices,

Should not pay respect to, and with abuse;

And malicious talebearing, kinds of furniture,

And favors, illegitimate.

Legitimate, congee, and meat,

‘At the most’, monk, nun;

Full admission, married girl,

The section on tens have been well proclaimed.”

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