Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 15: Not to swing the body 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, their bodies swaying, went amidst the houses, bending their bodies … " …
‘Not swaying the body will I go amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not go amidst the houses swaying the body. One should go holding the body straight. Whoever out of disrespect, the body swaying, goes amidst the houses bending the body, 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 has gone into residence for the rains, 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 kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare gacchanti kāyaṃ olambentā … pe … .
2 "na kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare gamissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (15:160)
3 na kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare gantabbaṃ. kāyaṃ paggahetvā gantabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare gacchati kāyaṃ olambento, āpatti dukkaṭassa.