Not doing any evil;

To be committed to the good;

To purify one’s mind:

These are the teachings of all Buddhas.

Patient endurance is the highest practice,
burning out defilements;

The Buddhas say Nibbāna is supreme.

Not a renunciant is one who injures others;

Whoever troubles others can’t be called a monk.

Not to insult and not to injure;

To live restrained by training rules;

Knowing one’s measure at the meal;

Retreating to a lonely place;

Devotion to the higher mind:

These are the teachings of all Buddhas.

For me there is no other Refuge, the Buddha … Dhamma … Sangha is my excellent refuge. By the utterance of this Truth, may there be blessings for me.

This has been said by the Lord, One-who-knows, One-who-sees, the Arahant, the Perfect Buddha enlightened by himself: ‘Bhikkhus, be perfect in moral conduct. Be perfect in the Pāṭimokkha. Dwell restrained in accordance with the the Pāṭimokkha. Be perfect in conduct and resort, seeing danger even in the slightest faults. Train yourselves by undertaking rightly the rules of training.’

Therefore we should train ourselves thus: ‘We will be perfect in the Pāṭimokkha. We will dwell restrained in accordance with the Pāṭimokkha. We will be perfect in conduct and resort, seeing danger even in the slightest faults.’ Thus indeed we should train ourselves.

Exert yourself and cut the stream.
Discard sense pleasures, brahmin;
Not letting sensual pleasures go,
A sage will not reach unity.

Vigorously, with all one’s strength,
It should be done, what should be done;
A lax monastic life stirs up
The dust of passions all the more.

Better is not to do bad deeds
That afterwards would bring remorse;
It’s rather good deeds one should do
Which having done one won’t regret.

As Kusa-grass, when wrongly grasped,
Will only cut into one’s hand
So does the monk’s life wrongly led
Indeed drag one to hellish states.

Whatever deed that’s slackly done,
Whatever vow corruptly kept,
The Holy Life led in doubtful ways –
All these will never bear great fruit.

Ten novice training rules
were established by the Blessed One.

They are the things in which a novice should train:

Abstaining from killing living beings

Abstaining from taking what is not given

Abstaining from unchastity

Abstaining from false speech

Abstaining from intoxicants that dull the mind

Abstaining from eating at the wrong time

Abstaining from dancing, singing, music and watching shows

Abstaining from perfumes, beautification and adornment

Abstaining from lying on high or luxurious beds

Abstaining from using gold, silver or money.

Ten grounds for a novice to be dismissed
were established by the Blessed One.

What are these ten?

He is a killer of living beings

He is a taker of what is not given

He is a practicioner of unchastity

He is a speaker of falsity

He is a consumer of intoxicants

He speaks in dispraise of the Buddha

He speaks in dispraise of the Dhamma

He speaks in dispraise of the Saṅgha

He is a holder of wrong views

He has corrupted a nun

These are the ten grounds for a novice to be dismissed
which were established by the Blessed One.

Five grounds for a novice to be punished
were established by the Blessed One.

What are these five?

He strives for the loss of the Bhikkhus

He strives for the non-benefit of the Bhikkhus

He strives for the non-residence of the Bhikkhus

He insults or abuses the Bhikkhus

He causes a split between the Bhikkhus

These are the five grounds for a novice to be punished
that were established by the Blessed One.