Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 19: Not to swing the head 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 heads swaying, went amidst the houses, bending their heads … " …
‘Not swaying the head will I go amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed"
One should not go amidst the houses swaying the head. One should go holding the head straight. Whoever out of disrespect, the head swaying, goes amidst the houses swaying the head, 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.
The Second Division: that on loud laughter
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare gacchanti sīsaṃ olambentā … pe … .
2 "na sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare gamissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (19:164)
3 na sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare gantabbaṃ. sīsaṃ paggahetvā gantabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare gacchati sīsaṃ olambento, āpatti dukkaṭassa.