A rotten apple
Imagine being part of the Buddha’s community. Your
every thoughts, act and deeds is seen through and through. Your intentions,
dreams , fantasies and feelings are open to inspections. To be part of the
Buddha’s team, means you wear your heart on the sleeve and to be ruthlessly
honest in inquiries and to others. One man thought he can get away with it ;
let’s see....
Every full moon ,the Buddha would recite the
Patimokkha (rules for monks). On that particular day, he absolutely refused to
recite : instead the Buddha just sitting there silently. After a few hours
Ānanda reminded him again :
“Ānanda, the gathering isn't pure.”
Moggallana was also at the meeting so he use his
psychic power to scan the mind of all the present monks.
“He saw that individual — unprincipled, evil, unclean
and suspect in his undertakings, hidden in his actions, not a contemplative
though claiming to be one, not leading the holy life though claiming to do so,
inwardly rotten, oozing with desire, filthy by nature — sitting in the midst of
the community of monks. “
Moggallāna approached the guy and told him to leave,
three times, but he remained silent. He then picked up the guy and shoved him
out and expelled him from the monastery.
From then on, the monks have to recite the Patimokkha
themselves. The Buddha said :
“It is impossible, it cannot happen, that a Tathāgata
would perform the observance or recite the Pāṭimokkha with an impure
gathering.”
Whether we are govern by the monk’s rules or as lay
practitioners, we need to know that we have caused harm to others for whatever
reasons and ask for pardon. This is to elleviate the guilt and regret feeling that disturb
the mind. Try it : go through your contacts list today and sent a “sorry” messages
to all of those you think you may have been a cause for their harm.
Uposatha
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.5.05.than.html
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