Understanding the Concept of Membership in the Sangha : หน้า 50/120
ทานบารมี สูตรลัดแห่งความสุข : หน้า 50/120 Explores the distinction between genuine monks and nominal monks, focusing on the implications of giving to the Sangha.
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สรุปเนื้อหา
This text discusses the notion of 'members of the clan' (gotrabuno), highlighting those who are monks in name only while still engaged in worldly activities like trade and farming. It emphasizes the significance of gifts offered to the Sangha, indicating that such gifts are beyond individual merit and are intended for the collective body, which includes the virtuous bhikkhus of the past. Moreover, it presents an intriguing viewpoint that gifts made to an immoral bhikkhu, representing the Sangha, can be deemed more fruitful than gifts to a personal arahant, stressing the importance of perceiving the monk in their role as part of the Sangha rather than as individuals with personal virtues.
หัวข้อประเด็น
-Membership in the Sangha
-Role of monks in society
-Value of almsgiving
-Distinction between types of bhikkhus
-Moral implications of gifting
ข้อความต้นฉบับในหน้า
37 MA. "Members of the clan" (gotrabuno) are those who are monks merely in name. They will go about with a piece of yellow cloth tied around their necks or arms, and will support their wives and children by engaging in trade and farming, etc.
38 The gift is incalculable and immeasurable in value because it is offered, by way of the intention of the donor, not to the "yellow-necks" as individuals but to the Sangha as a corporate whole. Thus the recipient body includes all the virtuous bhikkhus of the past, even those who have long passed away.
39 MA states that a gift offered to an immoral bhikkhu taken to represent the entire Sangha is more fruitful than a gift offered on a personal basis to an arahant. But for the gift to be properly presented to the Sangha, the donor must take no account of the personal qualities of the recipient but must see him solely as representing the Sangha as a whole.
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