Lzh Sarv Bu Pm Ss 4Encouraging Someone to Serve One’s Desires
Pāli / Sanskrit:Attakāmpāricariya
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Discourse on Encouraging Desire: An Exposition of Attakāmpāricariya
Context
The Attakāmpāricariya discourse (Encouraging Someone to Serve One's Desires) is recorded in the Vinaya Pitaka of the Theravāda tradition, the Pāli Canon, specifically within the Sarvāstivāda Vinaya. This Vinayadharma concerns rules of moral training and proper conduct in the community of those practicing the Buddha's Path of Liberation.
The context in which the discourse appears often concerns monastic legal matters, namely how a monastic or student should not encourage others to pursue selfish desires and sensual pleasures. This is a teaching on moral integrity (sīla) in the Sangha community.
Main Content
The discourse highlights one principal rule: one should not encourage or support anyone, whether a believer or not, in maintaining or serving their personal desires (kāma). Instead of supporting the pursuit of sensual pleasures (indriyārāma), proper practice helps others leave these confinements behind.
The concept attakāmpa in Pāli, meaning "one's own desires," is used to indicate self-serving aims and motives based on greed (lobha), hatred (dosa), and delusion (moha), the three poisons. The discourse teaches that a monastic or practitioner of the Buddha Dharma should not become an accomplice in this.
Instead, the discourse emphasizes that the role of genuine practitioners is to encourage others to pursue the path leading to liberation of the mind (nirvana): the path of sense restraint (indriyasangvara), cultivation of meditation (samādhi), and development of luminous wisdom (paññā).
Practical Meaning
The practical meaning of the Attakāmpāricariya discourse lies in deep recognition of the ethical responsibility of those who have entered the Path. This is not only a prohibition of outward conduct, but also a call to examine one's own motives.
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