Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules

Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 50: Not to smack the lips while eating.

  • Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.

… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate smacking the lips … " …


‘I will not eat smacking the lips,’ is a training to be observed."

One should not eat smacking the lips … if he is the first wrong-doer.

The Fifth Division: that on the mouthful

1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū capucapukārakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .


2 "na capucapukārakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (50:195)

3 na capucapukārakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca capucapukārakaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.

4 anāpatti— asañcicca … pe … ādikammikassāti.

5 dasamasikkhāpadaṃ niṭṭhitaṃ.
kabaḷavaggo pañcamo.