འགྲོགས་པར་མི་བྱ། བསྙེན་བཀུར་མི་བྱའོ་ཞེས་སྨྲས་ཏེ། དགེ་སློང་དེ་དག་རེ་རེས་ཀྱང་ཟླ་བ་ཕྱེད་ཕྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཁྱིམ་ལྔ་བརྒྱ་ལྔ་བརྒྱ་ལོག་པར་འཛིན་པ་ལ་བཙུད་དོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ན་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམ་པར་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་ཉན་ཐོས་དགེ་སློང་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། དྲི་མ་དང་། ཉོན་མོངས་པ་བསལ་བ་དག་གྲོང་དུ་དོང་སྟེ་ ཕྱིན་པ་དང་། བུད་མེད་དང་། སྐྱེས་པ་དང་། ཁྱེའུ་དང་། བུ་མོ་དག་གཤེ་ཞིང་མི་སྙན་པ་ཟེར།
“The story goes that there were six wicked mendicants named Sudarśana, Sulabha, Nandaka, Kalyāṇaka, Yaśa, and Agnidatta. They believed in the self, in the person, in annihilation, and in permanence. They joined forces, and they worked together to make the following plan: ‘We should each take responsibility for one hundred households, and we should argue our case in these one hundred households. We should each argue our case in twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, if not a full hundred households.’ They plotted in this way and then traveled to different villages, towns, cities, countries, kingdoms, and royal courts and visited individual households. In each household they visited, the first thing they would do was to make disparaging remarks about the Buddha. What sort of disparaging remarks did they make about the Buddha? When they entered the houses they would say, ‘A self exists. A being exists. A life force exists. A person exists. If there were no self, what would come [MS.89.b] and what would go? What would stand, what would sit, and what would lie down? What would speak, and what would be silent? What would give a gift, and who would receive it? What would eat? What would feel the sensations of happiness and suffering? Whoever has told you that there is no self, no being, no life force, and no person is not a suitable spiritual guide for you. He is not a spiritual friend.’ So, Śāriputra, women and men, boys and girls, would say, ‘Someone like this is not a spiritual friend. He is evil. An evil friend is not a spiritual friend. The people who have explained this to you are learned, and so you should believe them when they say that someone who is an evil friend is not a spiritual friend. Therefore, if someone tells you that there is no self, no being, no life force, and no person, do not rely on him, do not associate with him, and do not serve him.’ In this way, these mendicants each influenced five hundred households in the space of two weeks.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings