“There are seven kinds of offenses. — There are seven classes of offenses. — There are seven grounds of training. — There are seven proper ways. — There are seven illegitimate ways of acting according to what has been admitted. — There are seven legitimate ways of acting according to what has been admitted. — There is no offense in going for seven days to seven kinds of people. — There are seven benefits of being an expert on the Monastic Law. — There are seven rules about ‘at the most’. — There is becoming subject to relinquishment at dawn on the seventh day. — There are seven principles for settling legal issues. — There are seven kinds of legal procedures. — There are seven kinds of raw grain. — It is seven wide inside. — There are seven additions to the rule on eating in a group. — After being received, the tonics should be used from storage for at most seven days. — One takes a finished robe and leaves the monastery. — One leaves the monastery with a finished robe. — A monk doesn’t have any offense he needs to recognize. — A monk does have an offense he needs to recognize. — A monk has an offense he needs to make amends for. — There are seven kinds of illegitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code. — There are seven kinds of legitimate cancellations of the Monastic Code.

When a monk has seven qualities, he is an expert on the Monastic Law: (1) He knows the offenses. (2) He knows the non-offenses. (3) He knows the light offenses. (4) He knows the heavy offenses. (5) He is virtuous and restrained by the Monastic Code. His conduct is good, he associates with the right people, and he sees danger in minor faults. And he undertakes and trains in the training rules. (6) Whenever he wants, he accesses the four absorptions, those pleasant meditations of the higher mind. (7) And because of the ending of the corruptions, he has realized with his own insight, in this very life, the liberation by mind and the liberation by wisdom.