Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c28.20

v2.c28.20

Failing to make up differences by polite persuasion, Buddha’s instruction was to take resort to the seven methods of adhikaraṇasamathas, defined in the Majjhima and the Pātimokkha.¹ Buddha attributed all quarrels to selfish motives of the monks or their possession of certain wicked qualities. He held out the prospect of a happy and glorious life like that of the god Brahmā to a monk in after-life as the result of any act of his that would serve to re-unite the groups of monks separated from one another, while he declared that the monk sowing dissension among his brethren is doomed to perdition for an aeon.²