{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20003.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20003.htm","text":"1. The single Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right, the many who speak not in accordance with the right, the Samgha which speaks not in accordance with the right. The single Bhikkhu who speaks in accordance with the right, the many who speak in accordance with the right, the Samgha which speaks in accordance with the right 1\nNow (it may happen that) the one Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right may point out (the right course) to a single Bhikkhu who speaks in accordance with the right, or gives him to understand what it is 2, or urges him to see or consider the matter in that light 3, or teaches him, or\ninstructs him, saying, 'This is the Dhamma, this the Vinaya, this the teaching of the Master. Accept this, and approve this.' If the dispute should be thus settled, it is settled contrary to the Dhamma, and with a mere counterfeit of the Vinaya rule of procedure (that cases of dispute must be settled before a duly constituted meeting of the Samgha, and in the presence of the accused person) 1.\n[And in like manner, if he instruct the many, or the Samgha, who speak according to the right;--or if the many or the Samgha who speak not according to the right instruct the one, or the many, or the Samgha who speak according to the right;-then the dispute is settled contrary to the Dhamma (&c., as before).]\n________________________\nEnd of the nine cases in which the wrong side decides.\n2:1 This short enumeration of the different categories occurring in the subsequent paragraphs is quite in the style of the Abhidhamma texts, in which such lists are accustomed to be called m\u00e2tik\u00e2; compare the expression m\u00e2tik\u00e2-dharo as applied to a learned Bhikkhu in the stock phrase at Mah\u00e2vagga X, 2, 1; Kullavagga I, 11; IV, 14, 25, &c.\n2:2 The Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2 here says: niggh\u00e2pet\u00eeti yath\u00e2 so tam attham niggh\u00e2yati oloketi evam karoti.\n2:3 Pekkheti anupekkhet\u00eeti yath\u00e2 so tam attham pekkhati k\u2019 eva punappuna\u00f1 ka pekkhati evam karoti. (Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2.)\n3:1 Sammukh\u00e2-vinaya-patir\u00fbpakena. The rule of procedure, called Sammukh\u00e2-vinaya, hereafter rendered 'Proceeding in Presence,' is one of the seven modes of settling disputes already. referred to in the closing chapter of the P\u00e2timokkha ('Vinaya Texts,' vol. 1, p. 68), and is more fully described below in Kullavagga IV, 14, 16, and following sections.\nIt will be seen below, from \u00a7\u00a7 IV, 14, 27-30, that it is involved in, or rather is supposed to accompany, each of the other Proceedings mentioned in this chapter.","title":"SBE 20: Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 2","type":"page"}