Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 11: Not to laugh loudly when sitting in inhabited areas.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks, laughing a great laugh, went amidst the houses … " …
‘Not with loud laughter will I go amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not go amidst the houses with loud laughter. Whoever out of disrespect, laughing a great laugh, goes amidst the houses, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if it is unintentional, if he is not thinking, if he does not know, if he is ill, if he only smiles when the matter is one for laughter, if there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū mahāhasitaṃ hasantā antaraghare gacchanti … pe … .
2 "na ujjagghikāya antaraghare gamissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (11:156)
3 na ujjagghikāya antaraghare gantabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca mahāhasitaṃ hasanto antaraghare gacchati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, hasanīyasmiṃ vatthusmiṃ mihitamattaṃ karoti, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.