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Treasury of Truth (Dhammapada): Chapter 1, Twin Verses. 13PlatasFINAL. Dhammahadaya Labunorukandha Wana Senasuna. All Discussions - NewBuddhist. Isolated Suttas. White Lotus_HC. Www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/A - Tibetan Buddhism/Authors/Shantideva/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life - Stephen Bachelor tra/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.pdf. Wikipedia. Www.kunpal.com/bca1comm.pdf. Introduction to the Patimokkha Rules. With this background, we may now look at the content of the rules. What follows is a list summarizing the basic meanings of the rules, organized into five major categories: dealing with Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Communal harmony and the etiquette of a contemplative. The first three categories — the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path that make up the training in heightened virtue — are especially useful for showing how the rules relate to the Buddhist path as a whole. These five categories are not sharply distinct types.
Instead, they are more like the colors in the band of light thrown off by a prism — discernably different, but shading into one another with no sharp dividing lines. Each rule is followed by a code giving the rule's number in its section of the Patimokkha. If you count the number of rules in the list, you will see that they do not quite equal 227. Right Speech MN 117 defines wrong speech as lying, divisive speech, abusive speech, and idle chatter. Lying.