Visuddhimagga XXIII-38

876. Saṅghapaṭimānananti saṅghassa paṭimānanaṃ udikkhanaṃ. Yāva eso bhikkhu āgacchati, tāva saṅghakammassa akaraṇanti attho. Ettha ca na paṭimānanaṃ etassa pubbakiccaṃ, paṭimānanāvajjanaṃ pana pubbakiccaṃ. Tasmā evaṃ āvajjitabbaṃ ‘‘sace mayi sattāhaṃ nirodhaṃ samāpajjitvā nisinne saṅgho uttikammādīsu kiñcideva kammaṃ kattukāmo hoti, yāva maṃ koci bhikkhu āgantvā na pakkosati, tāvadeva vuṭṭhahissāmī’’ti. Evaṃ katvā samāpanno hi tasmiṃ samaye vuṭṭhātiyeva.

2)「僧伽的期待」,是僧伽的等待和期望。即直至这比丘来为止而不行僧伽羯磨的意思。在这里,那期待并非他的(入定比丘的)预备行为,但顾念期待是他的预备工作,所以他应作这样顾念:「如果当我坐于这里在七日之间入于灭定之时,僧伽欲行白羯磨等的任何羯磨,则不等什么比丘来召我时,[PTS 707]我即出定」。先作如是决定而入定者,则必于那时而出定。

Ñ(XXIII,38): (b) The Community's waiting is the Community's expecting. The meaning is: till this bhikkhu comes there is no carrying out of acts of the Community. And here it is not the actual Community's waiting that is the preparatory task, but the adverting to the waiting. So it should be adverted to in this way: 'While I am sitting for seven days in the attainment of cessation, if the Community wants to enact a resolution, etc., I shall emerge before any bhikkhu comes to summon me'. [707] One who attains it after doing this emerges at exactly that time.



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