San Mg Bu Pm Ss 4Encouraging Someone to Serve One’s Desires
Pāli / Sanskrit:Attakāmpāricariya
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Attakāmpāricariya Discourse: Serving Oneself According to Desire
Background
This discourse is recorded in the Vinaya Piṭaka, specifically in the Saṅghādisesa section (offenses that must be handled through each member of the Sangha making a separate declaration). The discourse belongs to the Theravāda Buddhist tradition and consists of disciplinary rules established by the Buddha to protect the moral conduct of renunciants, monks, and nuns.
Attakāmpāricariya may be translated as “serving oneself according to one’s own desire” or “encouraging someone to serve oneself according to desire.” This is one of the offenses (āpatti) that monks or nuns may commit when they encourage or assist someone else in using the practitioner’s own body to satisfy sexual desire.
This discourse is set in the context of the Buddha’s teaching on ethical matters, self-restraint, and protection of the discipline within the Sangha. It reflects the seriousness of the Dharma in guarding the minds of those who have gone forth against the temptations of desire.
Main Content
According to the Theravāda Vinaya tradition, the Saṅghādisesa section lists offenses that a nun (or the community of female monastics) may commit. Attakāmpāricariya refers to a case in which a nun, though not directly engaging in actions contrary to the discipline, encourages, supports, or creates conditions for another person to use her own body to satisfy sexual desire.
This is a subtler form of violation than direct offenses. The discourse emphasizes that even if a monastic does not directly participate in such an act, encouraging, assisting, or enabling it is also a significant breach of discipline. This reflects a principle of the Dharma: a practitioner must not only avoid wrongful actions, but also avoid indirect thoughts, words, and deeds that may lead others into error.
The Vinaya procedure for this offense is that the nuns must separately declare what they have done wrong and must undergo a process of purification according to the specific rules of the Sangha.
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