12(2)Cordiality(2)
"Bhikkhus,there are these six principles of cordiality that create affection and respect and conduce to cohesiveness,non-dispute,concord,and unity.
What six?
(1)"Here,a bhikkhu maintains bodily acts of loving-kindness toward his fellow monks both openly and privately.This is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and respect and conduces to cohesiveness,non-dispute,concord,and unity.
(2)“Again,a bhikkhu maintains verbal acts of loving-kindness toward his fellow monks both openly and privately.This,too,is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and respect....
(3)"Again,a bhikkhu maintains mental acts of loving-kindness toward his fellow monks both openly and privately.This,too,is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and respect....
(4)"Again,a bhikkhu shares without reservation any righteous gains that have been righteously obtained,including even the contents of his alms bowl,and usessuch things in common[290]with his virtuous fellow monks.This,too,is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and respect....
(5)"Again,a bhikkhu dwells both openly and privately possessing in common with his fellow monks virtuous behavior that is unbroken,flawless,unblemished,unblotched,freeing, praised by the wise, ungrasped,leading to concentration.This, too, is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and respect..
(6)"Again, a bhikkhu dwells both openly and privately possessing in common with his fellow monks a view that is noble and emancipating, which leads out, for one who acts upon it,to the complete destruction of suffering.This,too,is a principle of cordiality that creates affection and respect....
"These, bhikkhus,are.the six principles of cordiality that create affection and respect and coniduce to cohesiveness, to non-dispute,to concord,and to unity."