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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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