Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 12: Not to laugh loudly when going to 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, sat down amidst the houses … " …
‘Not with loud laughter will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not sit down amidst the houses with loud laughter. Whoever out of disrespect, laughing a great laugh, sits down 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 nisīdanti … pe … .
2 "na ujjagghikāya antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (12:157)
3 na ujjagghikāya antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca mahāhasitaṃ hasanto antaraghare nisīdati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, hasanīyasmiṃ vatthusmiṃ mihitamattaṃ karoti, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.