Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 16: Not to swing the body 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, their bodies swaying, sat down amidst the houses, bending their bodies … " …
‘Not swaying the body will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not sit down amidst the houses swaying the body. One should sit down holding the body straight. Whoever out of disrespect, the body swaying, sits down 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 nisīdanti, kāyaṃ olambentā … pe … .
2 "na kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (16:161)
3 na kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. kāyaṃ paggahetvā nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca kāyappacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdati kāyaṃ olambento, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, vāsūpagatassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.