འདལ་བ་གཞ 2.15

2.15

Should I or should I not participate with the saṅgha in its acts and activities? The Blessed One has even said:

“ ‘The pure always observe the fast.
The pure always observe the restoration rite.
The pure whose behavior is pure
Indeed fulfill their observance.’

“And I am pure, of the greatest purity.”

Knowing the brahmin Kapphiṇa’s thoughts, the Blessed One disappeared from the Bamboo Grove and reappeared, seated in front of the revered brahmin Kapphiṇa at Senikā Cave. He said, “Kapphiṇa, is it not true that you, when you retreated into solitude and withdrew into meditation, thought, ‘Today the saṅgha’s restoration rite falls on the fifteenth. If today, the fifteenth, is also my, the monk Kapphiṇa’s, restoration rite, should I or should I not go to the site of the saṅgha’s restoration rite? Should I or should I not participate in the restoration rite with the saṅgha? Should I or should I not attend the saṅgha’s acts and activities? Should I or should I not participate with the saṅgha in its acts and activities? The Blessed One has even said:

“ ‘ “The pure always observe the fast.
The pure always observe the restoration rite.
The pure whose behavior is pure
Indeed fulfill their observance.” ’