Thursday, 11th March 2010 10:25pm.
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| 1...Parajika 1 of 4 --Rules entailing expulsion from the Sangha (Defeat) | ||||
| 1. Should any bhikkhu -- participating in the training and livelihood of the bhikkhus, without having renounced the training, without having declared his weakness -- engage in the sexual act, even with a female animal, he is defeated and no longer in communion. | ||||
| 2...Parajika 2 of 4 --Rules entailing expulsion from the Sangha (Defeat) | ||||
| 2. Should any bhikkhu, in the manner of stealing, take what is not given from an inhabited area or from the wilderness -- just as when, in the taking of what is not given, kings arresting the criminal would flog, imprison, or banish him, saying, "You are a robber, you are a fool, you are benighted, you are a thief" -- a bhikkhu in the same way taking what is not given is defeated and no longer in communion. | ||||
| 3...Parajika 3 of 4 --Rules entailing expulsion from the Sangha (Defeat) | ||||
| 3. Should any bhikkhu intentionally deprive a human being of life, or search for an assassin for him, or praise the advantages of death, or incite him to die (thus): "My good man, what use is this wretched, miserable life to you? Death would be better for you than life," or with such an idea in mind, such a purpose in mind, should in various ways praise the advantages of death or incite him to die, he also is defeated and no longer in communion. | ||||
| 4...Parajika 4 of 4 --Rules entailing expulsion from the Sangha (Defeat) | ||||
| 4. Should any bhikkhu, without direct knowledge, boast of a superior human state, a truly noble knowledge and vision as present in himself, saying, "Thus do I know; thus do I see," such that regardless of whether or not he is cross-examined on a later occasion, he -- being remorseful and desirous of purification -- might say, "Friends, not knowing, I said I know; not seeing, I said I see -- vainly, falsely, idly," unless it was from over-estimation, he also is defeated and no longer in communion. | ||||
| 5...Sanghadisesa 1 of 13 --Rules entailing an initial and subsequent meeting of the Sangha | ||||
| 1. Intentional discharge of semen, except while dreaming, entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. | ||||
| 6...Sanghadisesa 2 of 13 --Rules entailing an initial and subsequent meeting of the Sangha | ||||
| 2. Should any bhikkhu, overcome by lust, with altered mind, engage in bodily contact with a woman, or in holding her hand, holding a lock of her hair, or caressing any of her limbs, it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. | ||||
| 7...Sanghadisesa 3 of 13 --Rules entailing an initial and subsequent meeting of the Sangha | ||||
| 3. Should any bhikkhu, overcome by lust, with altered mind, address lewd words to a woman in the manner of young men to a young woman alluding to sexual intercourse, it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. | ||||
| 8...Sanghadisesa 4 of 13 --Rules entailing an initial and subsequent meeting of the Sangha | ||||
| 4. Should any bhikkhu, overcome by lust, with altered mind, speak in the presence of a woman in praise of ministering to his own sensuality thus: "This, sister, is the highest ministration, that of ministering to a virtuous, fine-natured follower of the celibate life such as myself with this act" -- alluding to sexual intercourse -- it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. | ||||
| 9...Sanghadisesa 5 of 13 --Rules entailing an initial and subsequent meeting of the Sangha | ||||
| 5. Should any bhikkhu engage in conveying a man's intentions to a woman or a woman's intentions to a man, proposing marriage or paramourage -- even if only for a momentary liaison -- it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. | ||||
| 10...Sanghadisesa 6 of 13 --Rules entailing an initial and subsequent meeting of the Sangha | ||||
| 6. When a bhikkhu is building a hut from (gains acquired by) his own begging -- having no sponsor, destined for himself -- he is to build it to the standard measurement. Here the standard is this: twelve spans, using the sugata span, in length (measuring outside); seven in width, (measuring) inside. Bhikkhus are to be assembled to designate the site. The site the bhikkhus designate should be without disturbances and with adequate space. If the bhikkhu should build a hut from his own begging on a site with disturbances and without adequate space, or if he should not assemble the bhikkhus to designate the site, or if he should exceed the standard, it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community. | ||||