When it comes to these offenses, to how many of the four kinds of failure do they belong? … Through how many of the seven principles for settling legal issues are they settled? They belong to one kind of failure: failure in conduct. They are found in two classes of offenses: they may be in the class of offenses entailing confession; they may be in the class of offenses of wrong conduct. They originate in one way: from body, speech, and mind. They belong to legal issues arising from offenses. They are settled through three principles: they may be settled by resolution face-to-face and by acting according to what has been admitted; or they may be settled by resolution face-to-face and by covering over as if with grass.

How many kinds of offenses does one commit as a result of failure in livelihood? Six: (1) when, to make a living, having bad desires, overcome by desire, one claims a non-existent superhuman quality, one commits an offense entailing expulsion; (2) when, to make a living, one acts as a matchmaker, one commits an offense entailing suspension; (3) when, to make a living, one says, “The monk who stays in your dwelling is a perfected one,” and the listener understands, one commits a serious offense; (4) when, to make a living, a monk eats fine foods that he has requested for himself, he commits an offense entailing confession; (5) when, to make a living, a nun eats fine foods that she has requested for herself, she commits an offense entailing acknowledgment; (6) when, to make a living, one eats bean curry or rice that one has requested for oneself, one commits an offense of wrong conduct.