On one occasion during a shortage of food, a monk entered a bakery and took a bowlful of cookies, intending to steal it. … took a bowlful of pastries, intending to steal it. … took a bowlful of cakes, intending to steal it. He became anxious … “You have committed an offense entailing expulsion.”

On one occasion a certain monk saw a requisite during the day. He took note of it with the thought, “I’ll steal it at night.” He then stole it, thinking it was what he had seen … He then stole something else, thinking it was what he had seen … He then stole it, thinking it was something other than what he had seen … He then stole something else, thinking it was something other than what he had seen. He became anxious … “You have committed an offense entailing expulsion.” On one occasion a certain monk saw a requisite during the day. He took note of it with the thought, “I’ll steal it at night.” But he stole his own requisite, thinking it was what he had seen. He became anxious … “There’s no offense entailing expulsion, but there’s an offense of wrong conduct.”

On one occasion a monk saw a bag on a bench. He thought, “If I take it from there I shall be expelled,” and so he took it by moving the bench. He became anxious … “You have committed an offense entailing expulsion.”

On one occasion a monk took a mattress from the Sangha, intending to steal it. He became anxious … “You have committed an offense entailing expulsion.”