I swear to keep myself from committing the eighteen root downfalls:
(1) Speaking well of myself, and badly of others;
(2) Not giving the Dharma, or money;
(3) Refusing to listen, when I'm corrected;
(4) Giving up the Greater Way;
(5) Stealing the property of the Jewels;
(6) Giving up the Dharma;
(7) Taking the saffron robes away;
(8) Any of the immediate five;
(9) Holding views that are wrong;
(10) Destroying a town, or the like;
(11) Teaching emptiness to the unprepared;
(12) Dissuading from total enlightenment;
(13) Giving up vowed morality;
(14) Speaking badly of the Listeners;
(15) Professing the profound falsely;
(16) Accepting the property of the Three Jewels;
(17) Making wrong rules;
(18) Giving up the Wish
Sixteen of these I can only do with all four of the chains: Not to think the thing is wrong, not to want to stop it, to do it with pleasure and gladness, with no shame for myself or consideration for others. Two though I can do without there being all four: Holding views that are wrong, and abandoning the Wish.
I will avoid these at the cost of my life.