It may be that a monk doesn’t have any offense he needs to make amends for, yet a sangha, several monks, or an individual monk accuses him, saying: ‘You’ve committed an offense. Make amends for it.’ If he says, ‘I haven’t committed any offense that I should make amends for,’ yet the Sangha ejects him for not making amends for an offense, then the legal procedure is illegitimate. It may be that a monk doesn’t have any bad view he needs to give up, yet a sangha, several monks, or an individual monk accuses him, saying: ‘You have a bad view that you need to give up.’ If he says, ‘I don’t have any bad view that I should give up,’ yet the Sangha ejects him for not giving up a bad view, then the legal procedure is illegitimate.

It may be that a monk doesn’t have any offense he needs to recognize, nor any he needs to make amends for, yet a sangha, several monks, or an individual monk accuses him, saying: ‘You’ve committed an offense. Do you recognize it? Make amends for it.’ If he says, ‘I haven’t committed any offense that I should recognize, nor any I should make amends for,’ yet the Sangha ejects him for not recognizing an offense or for not making amends for it, then the legal procedure is illegitimate.