Theravāda Vinaya — Mahāvibhaṅga — Pārājikakaṇḍa

“Ānanda, when one is asked by the owner to assign a property to so-and-so and one does as asked, what has one committed?”

“One hasn’t committed anything, sir, not even an act of wrong conduct.”

“Venerable Ajjuka was asked by the owner to assign his property to so-and-so, which he did.

There’s no offense for Venerable Ajjuka.”

At that time a family in Benares that supported Venerable Pilindavaccha was harassed by criminals.

Two of their children were kidnapped.

Soon afterwards Pilindavaccha brought those children back by his supernormal powers and put them in a stilt house.

When people saw those children, they said,

“This is the greatness of Venerable Pilindavaccha’s supernormal powers,”

and they gained confidence in him.

But the monks complained and criticized him,

“How could Venerable Pilindavaccha bring back children who had been kidnapped by criminals?”

They told the Buddha.

“There’s no offense for someone who uses their supernormal powers.”

At that time the two monks Paṇḍaka and Kapila were friends.

One was staying in a village and one at Kosambī.

Then, while one of them was traveling from that village to Kosambī, he had to cross a river. As he did so, a lump of fat that had escaped from the hands of a pig butcher stuck to his foot.

He grabbed it, thinking, “I’ll give it to the owners.”

But the owners accused him, saying,

“You’re not a monastic anymore!”

Just then a woman cowherd who had seen him crossing said,

“Come, sir, have sexual intercourse.”

Thinking he was no longer a monastic, he had sexual intercourse with her.

When he arrived at Kosambī, he told the monks,

who in turn told the Buddha.

“There’s no offense entailing expulsion for stealing,

but there’s an offense entailing expulsion for having sexual intercourse.”

At that time a monk at Sāgalā who was a student of Venerable Daḷhika was plagued by lust. He stole a turban from a shopkeeper and said to Daḷhika,

“Sir, I’m not a monastic anymore. I’ll disrobe.”

“But what have you done?”

He told him.

Venerable Daḷhika had the turban brought and valued.

It was worth less than five māsaka coins.

Saying, “There’s no offense entailing expulsion,”

he gave a teaching.

And that monk was delighted.

The second offense entailing expulsion is finished.