From: Ong Yong Peng
Message: 2195
Date: 2003-03-23
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Lars wrote:
"In such a case, bhikkhus, the declaration of such a bhikkhu is
neither to be received with approval nor with scorn. Without
approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences
word by word, one should trace them in the Suttas and verify them by
the Vinaya. If they are neither traceable in the Suttas nor
verifiable by the Vinaya, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this
is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by
that bhikkhu -- or by that community, or by those elders, or by that
elder.'"