ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ཇི་སྙམ་དུ་སེམས། སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་ཁམས་རབ་ཏུ་མང་ངམ་གསོལ་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་ན་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་གསུངས་པའི་དོན་བདག་གིས་འཚལ་ཏེ།
“Why is this? Śāriputra, all sick sentient beings are always suffering from these three afflictions: the affliction of desire, the affliction of anger, and the affliction of confusion. [MS.101.b] Those beings who are born in the hells always suffer from these very same three afflictions: the affliction of desire, the affliction of anger, and the affliction of confusion. Those beings who are born as animals, in the spirit world governed by Yama, in the human realm, or among the gods always suffer from these very same three afflictions: the affliction of desire, the affliction of anger, and the affliction of confusion. Other than the Tathāgata, the unsurpassed great king of doctors, there is no available doctor, no medicine or healing balm, that can relieve the affliction of desire, the affliction of anger, and the affliction of confusion in all sentient beings. By mastering the Dharma body, the bodhisatva, the great being, can himself become a dispenser of medicine, able to relieve the affliction of desire, relieve the affliction of anger, and relieve the affliction of confusion in sentient beings. Therefore, take to heart, Śāriputra, that other than the Tathāgata, the unsurpassed great king of doctors, there is no doctor, no medicine or healing balm, that can relieve the affliction of desire, the affliction of anger, and the affliction of confusion in all sentient beings, and that by mastering the Dharma body, the bodhisatva, the great being, is able to relieve the affliction of desire, relieve the affliction of anger, and relieve the affliction of confusion in sentient beings.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings