Visuddhimagga IV-4

Navavihāre bahu navakammaṃ hoti, akarontaṃ ujjhāyanti. Yattha pana bhikkhū evaṃ vadanti ‘‘āyasmā yathāsukhaṃ samaṇadhammaṃ karotu, mayaṃ navakammaṃ karissāmā’’ti evarūpe vihātabbaṃ.

2.「新精舍」，有甚多新的工作，如不参加工作，则其它比丘会出怨言。如果别的比丘能作此说：「尊者自由行沙门法，我等当作一切新事」，这样的新精舍则亦可住。

Ñ(IV,4): 2. In a new monastery there is much new building activity. People criticize someone who takes no part in it. But he can live in such a monastery where the bhikkhus say, 'Let the venerable one do the ascetic's duties as much as he likes. We shall see to the building work'.

Sayādaw U Sīlānanda: 'the ascetic's duties' means practising of meditation. Han: It is the translation from [samaṇadhammaṃ karotu] which Mahāsī Sayādaw translated as monk-duties. The monk-duties may be more than the practice of meditation.