Chulavagga 10.5

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

TENTH KHANDHAKA (ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNIS/NUNS)

Chapter-5.

1. Now Maha-pajapati the Gotami(Buddha's Aunt/Foster Mother) went to the Lord Buddha [&c., as before], and said: 'May the Lord Buddha preach to me the Dhamma (truth, doctrine) in abstract; so that, having heard the doctrine of the Lord Buddha, I may remain alone and separate, earnest, zealous, and resolved.'

'Of whatsoever doctrines you shalt be conscious, Gotami, that they conduce to passion and not to peace, to pride and not to veneration, to wishing for much and not to wishing for little, to love of society and not to seclusion, to sloth and not to the exercise of zeal, to being hard to satisfy and not to content--verily mayest you then, Gotami, bear in mind

that that is not Dhamma, that that is not Vinaya, that that is not the teaching of the Master. But of whatsoever doctrines you shalt be conscious, Gotami, that they conduce to peace and not to passion, to veneration and not to pride, to wishing for little and not to wishing for much, to seclusion and not to love of society, to the exercise of zeal and not to sloth, to content and not to querulousness--verily mayest you then bear in mind that that is Dhamma, and that is Vinaya, and that the teaching of the Master.'