བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སློབ་དཔོན་ལ་རིམ་གྲོ་དང་། བསྙེན་བཀུར་བྱེད་དེ། ཐ་ན་ཆུ་རྫ་གང་ཙམ་ཡང་འབུལ་ལོ། །
“Furthermore, Śāriputra, the bodhisatva cultivates the following thought: ‘For a long time I had no spiritual friends. Influenced by evil friends, I was lazy, I had little vigor, I was idle and stupid and held wrong views, and so I did not pay proper attention to making offerings and sacrifices and performing the fire ritual. I thought that there would be no consequences to the good and bad actions I carried out, and I was overcome by temptations. In this way I developed many bad habits, and as a result of these unwholesome habits I had to endure terrible states of existence. In the preta realm I was not able to rely on those who are worthy of veneration. As a preta I had charcoal for sustenance, and for many years, many hundreds of years, many thousands of years, many hundreds of thousands of years, I did not even hear the word water, much less come in contact with it. In this kind of state, I had no inclination to serve those who are worthy of veneration. Now that I have attained this fortunate state and my motivation is good, I will dedicate my life to those who are worthy of veneration. I will honor the teachers and apply myself to the cycle of teachings contained in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva, with no concern for my body or my life.’
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings