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The Treasure of Right Conduct.
1. Listen to me. I shall explain to you in due order how a monk should act in order to acquire the treasure of Right ('onduct.
2. The great suge las declared the following as iving creatures, riz. Eart) lires, water lives, Fire lives, Air lives, grass and trees with seeds, and mov. ing lives.
. A well-controlled inonk should neither break ilor scratch eartb, wall, rock or a clod through any of the three-fold activities!
5. À moni should not sit on virgin? earth or on a dusty seat. He should sit on them after cleaning them and after taking permission of their owners
6. A monk should not usc cold water, Lailstones, rain water or snow, but he should accept hot water purified by boiling.
7 A monk should not wipe or scrape his body if wet with water. Seeing it such, he should not touch it.
8. A monk should neither feed, rake nor extinguish burning coal, fire, fame or a torch.
9. He should not fan his own body or a foreign object with a palm-fan, leaves, stalks or a fau.
10. le should not cut graes or trees, nor pluck flowers, or dig roots of any plant. Unripe seeds of various kinds he should not desire even in thought.
i. l.e. mental, verlial and physical. 2. I.e, not examined and cleaned.
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