འདལ་བ་གཞ 3.9

3.9

If he is unable to physically or verbally communicate his offer to lift restrictions, the entire saṅgha should go to him or, alternatively, the monk should be brought among saṅgha. If the entire saṅgha neither goes to him nor brings that monk among the saṅgha,⁶³ and they lift restrictions without a quorum,⁶⁴ they will be guilty of a breach.

“Monks, I will formulate the rules of customary conduct for a monk who receives a lifting of restrictions. Once he has received a lifting of restrictions, the monk who receives a lifting of restrictions should not run, nor should he rush, jump, jump over partitions, jump over ditches, jump onto verandas, sit in the sky above, go beyond the boundary, climb a ladder two rungs at a time, climb a staircase two steps at a time, spill over onto a causeway,⁶⁵ fall asleep, or sit in equipoise. To fall asleep or to sit in equipoise are censured for two reasons: because one suggests disrespect and the other absentmindedness.

“Then, when the saṅgha elder says, ‘Venerable ones, profess the consent and purity of those monks who have not come. Let their profession be known,’ the receiving monk says while seated in front of the nearest monk, ‘Venerable one, please listen. There is a monk, sick, suffering, and tormented by illness, at another site. Today is the fifteenth, the saṅgha’s lifting of restrictions. As it is also the fifteenth, the day of lifting restrictions, for that monk, the monk so-and-so lifts restrictions on the saṅgha regarding the three grounds of what has been seen, heard, or suspected of him,⁶⁶