Misc 2
- Pc 48, Watching battle
- Pc 49, Staying with army
- Pc 50, Going to an army practice or review
- Pc 52, Tickling
- Pc 53, Playing in water
- Pc 55, Attempting to frighten
Pc 48, Watching battle
Going to a battlefield to watch an army was a form of entertainment for non-military citizens. Actual battle was not total warfare, and practice manuveurs were outside the city.
Modern examples would include watching a public demonstration or a live broadcast.
Recordings or movie scenes don't apply here, since those events are not currently happening, but one should be aware of how this appears to others.
Object: an army on active duty. This is not only battle.
Effort: staying still and watching them is enough.
Intention: to watch them. Going to them for a different, suitable reason is not an offense.
Related: dukkaṭa for holding a weapon, dukkaṭa for teaching somebody holding a weapon.
Non-offenses:
- a suitable reason to go to the army (visiting an ill person, shelter from danger, invited for alms or to give a talk)
- having other business, one sees the army
- seeing them from the monastery
- the army comes to where one happens to be
- meeting an army coming from the opposite direction
- there are dangers
Pc 49, Staying with army
If there is a suitable reason to go to an army, one may stay up to three consecutive nights with the army.
The nights are counted as dawns.
Pc 50, Going to an army practice or review
While one is staying with an army, going to a battlefield (war games included), roll call, the troops in battle formation or review.
Public parades, air shows are included.
Example: one visits the army for seeing a dying person. Later, in an informal situation the soldiers are showing the monk how cool their weapons are.
Pc 52, Tickling
A bhikkhu died from being unable to catch his breath while being tickled.
Pc 53, Playing in water
Effort: one jumps up or down, splashes or swims.
Object: the water is at least ankle deep.
Dukkatas: Paddling in a boat, sailing a sailboat or steering a motorboat, if done for amusement.
Certain monasteries go alms-round with boats, in which case they have a suitable business. One may also travel on a river with a boat or canoe, as long as there is a suitable reason.
Intention: for fun, for a laugh.
Bath-tubs may be used, sometimes prescribed for easing back-pain.
Swimming for fitness is not mentioned, but there were monks known to "keep their bodies in strong shape". Ven. Dabba Mallaputta assigns them to dwellings at the same place.
A medical instruction for swimming would be "having business in the water".
Non-offenses:
- one has business to do in the water or in the boat
- crossing to the other shore
- there are dangers
Pc 55, Attempting to frighten
Intention: to frighten the other person.
Effort: any effort to make arrangements to cause fright, or talking about dangers.
Object: the other person is a bhikkhu. Dukkata for non-bhikkhus.
Perception and Result are not factors.
Non-offenses: without the intention to cause fright.