Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 20: Not to swing the head 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 heads swaying, sat down amidst the houses, bending their heads … " …
‘Not swaying the head will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed"
One should not sit down amidst the houses swaying the head. One should sit down holding the head straight. Whoever out of disrespect, the head swaying, sits down 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 nisīdanti sīsaṃ olambentā … pe … .
2 "na sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (20:165)
3 na sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. sīsaṃ paggahetvā nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca sīsappacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdati sīsaṃ olambento, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, vāsūpagatassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.