{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe13/sbe1309.htm","path":"bud/sbe13/sbe1309.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe13/sbe1309.htm","text":"RULES REGARDING MATTERS WHICH OUGHT TO BE CONFESSED.\nHere, venerable Sirs, the four rules regarding matters which ought to be confessed come into recitation.\n1. Whatsoever Bhikkhu, when a Bhikkhun\u00ee not related to him has entered within the houses1, shall, with his own hand, accept at her hands food, either hard or soft, and eat or enjoy it--that is a matter which ought to be confessed by that Bhikkhu, saying, 'I have fallen, Brethren, into a blameworthy offence, unbecoming, which ought to be confessed; and I confess it!'\n2. Now Bhikkhus, when they have been invited to laymen's houses, eat. If the Bhikkhun\u00ee stay there giving directions, saying, 'Here give curry, give rice here!' the Bhikkhun\u00ee ought to be rebuked by those Bhikkhus, saying, 'Stand aside, Sister, as long as the Bhikkhus are eating!' If it should not occur to a single Bhikkhu to rebuke the Bhikkhun\u00ee, saying, 'Stand aside, Sister, as long as the Bhikkhus are eating!'--that is a matter that ought to be confessed by those Bhikkhus, saying, 'We have fallen, Brethren, into a blameworthy offence, unbecoming, which ought to be confessed; and we confess it!' 3. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall accept, with his p. 57 own hand, food, either hard or soft, in such households as have been (by a formal sammuti) declared to be households, under discipline1, without having been previously invited, and without being sick, and eat it or enjoy it--that is a matter that ought to be confessed by that Bhikkhu, saying, 'I have fallen, Brethren, into a blameworthy offence, unbecoming, which ought to be confessed; and I confess it!'\n4. Whatsoever Bhikkhu, while he is dwelling in a place belonging to the class of those forest dwellings which are held to be insecure and dangerous2, shall accept, with his own hand, at his home, food, either hard or soft, without having previously given notice (of the danger incurred by people that enter that forest), unless he is sick, and shall eat it or enjoy it--that is a matter that ought to be confessed by that Bhikkhu, saying, 'I have fallen, Brethren, into a blameworthy offence, unbecoming, which ought to be confessed; and I confess it!'\nHere end the P\u00e2tidesaniyas.\nVenerable Sirs, the four rules regarding matters which require confession have been recited.\nIn respect of them I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter?'\nA second time I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter?'\nA third time I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter?'\nThe venerable ones are pure herein. Therefore do they keep silence. Thus I understand.\nHere endeth the recitation or the P\u00e2tidesaniyas.\n1 Antaragharam pavitth\u00e2; that is, during her alms-visit to the village. Compare the 3rd Sekhiya; Mah\u00e2vagga I, 23, 3; and Kullavagga VIII, 5, 2.\n1 Sekha-sammat\u00e2ni kul\u00e2ni; which the Vibhanga explains as a household grown rich in faith, but poor in goods; where whatever they get is given away to the Order, though the family may be some days in want of it. Compare what is said of An\u00e2tha-pindika in the Introduction to the 40th G\u00e2taka (G\u00e2taka I, 228); though his lot had not reached the very lowest limit.\n2 Compare the 29th Nissaggiya.","title":"Vinaya Texts, Part I (SBE 13) - P\u00e2timokkha - P\u00e2tidesaniy\u00e2 Dhamm\u00e2","type":"page"}