“Even if you’re not asked, let alone if you are, I allow you to go for seven days to any of seven kinds of persons— a monk, a nun, a trainee nun, a novice monk, a novice nun, your mother, your father. But you should return within seven days. It may be that a monk’s mother is sick and sends a message to her son: ‘Please come, I’m sick.’ Then, even if you’re not asked, let alone if you are, you should go for seven days, thinking, ‘I’ll look for food for the sick,’ ‘I’ll look for food for the nurses,’ ‘I’ll look for medicine,’ ‘I’ll enquire about her sickness,’ or ‘I’ll nurse her.’ But you should return within seven days. It may be that a monk’s father is sick and sends a message to his son: