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Pāli / Sanskrit:Nātyavakṛṣṭaṁ nivāsayiṣyāma
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Nātyavakṛṣṭaṁ Nivāsayiṣyāma: An Exposition
Background
The Nātyavakṛṣṭaṁ Nivāsayiṣyāma belongs to the Vinaya Piṭaka of the Early Buddhist tradition, which preserves the regulations governing discipline and communal life for monastics. The title of this text, meaning "I shall have it reside in a place free from performers" (or those who devote themselves to pursuits contrary to the Dharma), reflects the practical matters that the Buddha and the Sangha had to address in the course of establishing the monastic community.
The Vinaya Piṭaka records the encounters between the Buddha and various questions of ethics, conduct, and community governance. Each rule arose from specific situations encountered by monastics, and the Buddha offered guidance in order to maintain the purity of the Sangha and to protect the Dharma from harmful external influences.
Principal Content
This text addresses the matter of selecting a place of residence for members of the monastic community. According to the Early Buddhist tradition, a monastic should take up residence in places conducive to practice—locations that are tranquil and removed from activities that agitate or distract the mind, such as artistic performances, music, dancing and singing, and other worldly occupations.
The compound "nātyavakṛṣṭaṁ" (nāty + avakṛṣṭaṁ) refers to places free from performances or from those who devote themselves to the performer's way of life—things from which bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs are counseled to keep their distance. This is not because such activities are in themselves evil, but because they are liable to cause distraction from the practice of the mind, interrupting the samādhi and the clear comprehension (sampajañña) necessary for the path to liberation.
This text emphasizes that the Buddha consistently guided the Sangha to choose their living environment with wisdom.
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