When I had completed the probation, while deserving the trial period, I committed one unconcealed offense of intentional emission of semen. What should I do now?” They told the Buddha. “Well then, the Sangha should send the monk Udāyī back to the beginning for one unconcealed offense of intentional emission of semen, committed while deserving the trial period. And it should be done like this. The monk Udāyī should approach the Sangha, arrange his upper robe over one shoulder, pay respect at the feet of the senior monks, squat on his heels, raise his joined palms, ‘Venerables, I had committed one offense of intentional emission of semen, concealed for five days. … When I had completed the probation, while deserving the trial period, I committed one unconcealed offense of intentional emission of semen. I ask the Sangha to send me back to the beginning for that offense.’ And he should ask a second