then the legal procedure is illegitimate. It may be that a monk doesn’t have any offense he needs to recognize, nor any he needs to make amends for, yet a Sangha, several monks, or an individual monk accuses him, saying: ‘You’ve committed an offense. Do you recognize it? Make amends for it.’ ‘I haven’t committed any offense that I should recognize, nor any I should make amends for,’ yet the Sangha ejects him for not recognizing an offense or for not making amends for it, then the legal procedure is illegitimate. It may be that a monk doesn’t have any offense he needs to recognize, nor any bad view he needs to give up,