Lzh Sarv Bu Pm 2 As 2Resolution Through Recollection
Pāli / Sanskrit:Sativinaya
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SATI VINAYA JUDICIAL TEXT - RESOLUTION THROUGH MINDFULNESS
Background
The Sativinaya Sutta appears in the Vinaya Pitaka of the Theravāda tradition, specifically in the Bhikkhunī Pātimokkha, the code of rules for female bhikkhus. The Vinaya Pitaka is the collection of training regulations established by the Buddha to maintain discipline in the Sangha, in order to protect the practice of the Dharma and create favorable conditions for the practice of awakening.
The spirit of the Vinaya Pitaka is not punishment but spiritual cultivation. Sativinaya, literally “vinaya through sati,” discipline through mindfulness, expresses the distinctive approach of Theravāda Buddhism: instead of imposing rigid commands, the Buddha guides disciples to use sati, mindfulness, or more precisely wakefulness and recollection, as an instrument for self-regulation of conduct. This text demonstrates that true discipline arises from within, from clear understanding of the nature of actions and their consequences.
Main Content
Sativinaya teaches that maintaining the integrity of the discipline does not necessarily have to occur through rebuke or punishment, but through recollection and the restoration of wisdom (sati, Pāli, also called “mindfulness,” whose core meaning is the capacity to remember and continually maintain ethical orientation).
When a bhikkhunī or bhikkhu violates a rule, instead of being immediately brought before the court of the Sangha, that person is reminded of the Pātimokkha recitation, the list of rules recited periodically, a sacred act that stimulates wakefulness. Through listening again to the rules, members of the Sangha automatically remember, reflect, and from within their own minds adjust their conduct. This is “resolution through mindfulness,” change arising from inner understanding rather than from external coercion.
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