Lzh Mi Bu Pm Sk 78Nāvarṇakārakaṁ paribhokṣyāma
Pāli / Sanskrit:Nāvarṇakārakaṁ paribhokṣyāma
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Explanation of the Nāvarṇakārakaṁ Paribhokṣyāma Discourse
Background
This discourse appears in the Vinaya Piṭaka of the Theravāda Buddhist tradition, where the rules of practice and discipline of the Buddhist Saṅgha are preserved. The Vinaya Piṭaka is not merely a collection of prohibitions or mechanical laws, but an expression of profound ethical practice, intended to cultivate compassion, awareness, and mindful contemplation (sati).
The title “Nāvarṇakārakaṁ paribhokṣyāma” implies the use or enjoyment of something related to “nine manners” or “nine factors.” In the context of the Vinaya Piṭaka, this is usually connected with practical rules concerning food, robes, lodging, and other requisites for monks, bhikkhus.
Main Content
The specific content of this discourse has not yet been fully translated in currently available general materials. However, based on the structure of the Vinaya Piṭaka and the title of the discourse, it may be understood as part of a regulation on the use or enjoyment of requisites necessary for the life of practice.
In the Theravāda tradition, bhikkhus are permitted to use the four basic requisites (catupaccaya): robes, food, lodging, and medicine. When using these things, monks are not to regard them as objects for enjoyment of pleasure, but as means serving practice. This discourse perhaps regulates the use of some nine factors, which may be nine kinds of food, nine forms of use, or nine principles of conduct, so that they accord with the law of the Saṅgha and do not violate ethics.
The core principle is complete heedfulness (appamada) in every act of use. When a bhikkhu enjoys food or other requisites, he must contemplate impermanence (anicca), the unattractive nature (asubha), and non-self (anattā) of all things. In this way, enjoyment becomes part of practice, not an act of attachment or wastefulness.
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