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  2. An Environment for Practice
     … And, as is explained in the Vinaya, the precepts for monks serve several purposes, internal and external. Some of them are there for training the mind; others are there for creating calm, peace, and harmony in the community; still others are there so that the community inspires respect. If monks are squabbling or competing with one another to get fancy things, it doesn’t … 
  3. Being Right
     … If he hadn’t had a strong sense of right and wrong, he wouldn’t have set forth the Vinaya, he wouldn’t have established the precepts. He wouldn’t have pointed out that there are lots of views out there that are dead wrong, that cause people to suffer, that keep people in the round of rebirth, that prevent them from finding any … 
  4. Book search result icon Starting Out Small Recollection of Virtue
     … And it’s forbidden in the Vinaya, in the meal protocols. Just now I didn’t give a full explanation. The Vinaya says that when a monk makes use of the four requisites—cloth, almsfood, medicine, and lodgings: In the area of food, it says that if you bring it back to eat but you don’t eat it all, you should take care … 
  5. Page search result icon Discipline Is a Choice
     … It’s related to Vinaya, the discipline. Discipline is a word we don’t like. We tend to think of it as having to do with punishment and harsh regulations. But it’s simply a choice that you’re making. You’re learning from your past experience that some of your desires are in your best interest, and some of your desires are not … 
  6. An Island above the Flood
     … Vineyya, the verb used here, is a verb that’s related to a Vinaya, or discipline. You discipline those thoughts. You don’t give them any space in your mind. Now, there are times when the Buddha will have you think in terms of how the world is, mainly for the sake of samvega, but also for the sake of understanding action: the power … 
  7. Complacency
     … This is also an issue in a famous story from the Vinaya. The different cousins of the Buddha were planning to ordain, and there was one who wasn’t quite sure whether he wanted to ordain or not. So one of the other cousins said, “Well, what do you think you’re going to have to do if you stay as a lay person … 
  8. Pride, Good & Bad
     … As he said, the Dhamma and the Vinaya are timeless, and we have to have pride in our timeless tradition in order to maintain it. Now, you do have to be careful about that pride. You notice in the sutta on the customs of the noble ones, the Buddha said that you’re careful to be frugal and content with little, but at the … 
  9. Page search result icon MvIV: pavāraṇākkhandhako
     … sā vo bhavissati aññamaññānulomatā āpattivuṭṭhānatā vinayapurekkhāratā. “That will be for your mutual conformity, for your arising out of offenses, for your esteem for the Vinaya. (Mv.IV.1.14) evañca pana bhikkhave pavāretabbaṁ. “And, monks, you should invite like this: byattena bhikkhunā paṭibalena saṅgho ñāpetabbo “An experienced and competent monk should inform the Saṅgha: suṇātu me bhante saṅgho ajja pavāraṇā. “‘Venerable sirs, may the … 
  10. The Buddha’s Shoulds
     … In some cases, it was in the form of the rules, like the rules in the Vinaya. In other cases, there were more general principles about how certain actions lead to happiness, and other actions lead to long-term suffering. Based on that, you can decide; he gives you principles for deciding. And he attacked any teaching that would not provide you with those … 
  11. Being Somebody, Going Somewhere
     … To see intention explained, you have to look into the Vinaya, the monk’s rules. There you see intention defined basically as meaning to do something. An unintentional act is when you didn’t mean to do it, or you meant to do it but you didn’t mean to have certain results come about. For instance, if somebody is choking on some food … 
  12. Book search result icon The Buddha’s Teachings The Buddha’s Teachings
     … The full set of disciplinary rules is called the Vinaya. Central to the Vinaya for each of the orders is a code of important rules, called the Pāṭimokkha, which the members of each Saṅgha should listen to every two weeks. The Buddha established the Vinaya rules to serve three purposes: • to maintain the good faith of the laity, • to promote harmony within the Saṅghas … 
  13. Hypocrisy
     … This is why we have the Vinaya for the monks—all the rules that, at first glance, seem really obsessive. But they point to an important issue: that if the mind is really well trained, if the mind really is in a solid state of well-being, that fact should be reflected in all of its activities. And one way of catching it is … 
  14. Page search result icon Surveying the World
     … You read the story of his life, even just the section in the Vinaya, and you see all the problems that the monks and nuns created for him—and those were the people who were supposedly his disciples. On top of that, he had to deal with sectarians of other kinds. Here he was, offering them a path to the end of suffering, and … 
  15. Surveying the World
     … You look at the remainder of his life and you can see that it was full of difficulties in trying to get the Dhamma and Vinaya established. Here he had been working so hard to find something of real value, and he was offering it for free, but there were a lot of people who wouldn’t take it. Not only that, they would … 
  16. The Brightness of Life
     … People saying, “Well, why don’t we change the Vinaya here, why don’t we change the Dhamma there, make it nicer?” That’s what’s going to kill the Dhamma. So while the true Dhamma is still alive, take advantage of it. It’s still available. It’s simply up to you to decide whether it’s important enough to focus all your … 
  17. Alone Together
     … This is one of the reasons why we have the Vinaya. The rules are there, not simply to look after the individual’s mind, but also to look after peace in the community, harmony in the community. So as we’re living together, it’s good to think about the principles—not only the rules, but also the larger principles of how we can … 
  18. A Quality of the Character
     … It’s always amazing to see throughout the Vinaya, when someone has misbehaved and they get called into the Buddha’s presence, the Buddha asks them, “Did you say this? Did you do this?” And there was something about being in the Buddha’s presence that people who may have been devious at other times weren’t devious with him. They admitted, yes, that … 
  19. Friendship Leading to Seclusion
     … He ordained them and he had them stay with their teachers for a while so that they could pick up the teacher’s habits, pick up the teacher’s way of looking at things, pick up some knowledge about the Buddha’s teachings, both the Dhamma and the Vinaya, to provide the student with good friends inside. So try to figure out who your … 
  20. In Tune
     … The monks all adhere to the Vinaya. The lay people all adhere to the precepts. If we don’t, there’s going to be trouble, there’s going to be disharmony in the group, and it becomes an unpleasant place to practice. But if we have these bases for harmony in terms of the precepts and right view, then the fact that we’re … 
  21. To Get Ourselves
     … that you take the Dhamma and the Vinaya as your guide, and you don’t let people’s opinions pull you away from that. This relates to a couple of themes that Ajaan Suwat said Ajaan Mun would talk about quite a lot. One was the theme of the customs of the noble ones. Ajaan Mun, as he was practicing out in the forest … 
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