དེ་ལྟར་ཆོས་དེ་འབྱུང་བར་དཀའ་བའོ། །
“At that time I would think, ‘It is not only for the sake of those sons of good family who are moral and whose character is virtuous, whose nature it is to have little desire, little anger, and little confusion, that I will attain unsurpassed perfect awakening. Rather, it is for the sake of those sentient beings who are unruly, undisciplined, and immoral, whose character is evil and whose nature it is to experience much desire, much anger, and much confusion, [MS.83.a] that I will attain unsurpassed perfect awakening. It is these beings, first and foremost, who I will help toward nirvāṇa.’ Śāriputra, this was the attitude of nonaggression that I kept in mind at that time. This, Śāriputra, is how the Tathāgata perfected his abilities of helpfulness as he pursued the practice of the way of the bodhisatva in the past. “Śāriputra, imagine that there was a bodhisatva who was well on his way to unsurpassed perfect awakening and had in his possession a piece of meat, and imagine that some hungry and thirsty person then came to ask him for this meat, but in asking they said, ‘Anyone who gives me a piece of meat will destroy all the roots of virtue he has cultivated in the past. He will displease a thousand buddhas in eons to come. He will roast in the great hells for a hundred thousand eons.’ In a situation like this, Śāriputra, the bodhisatva should ask for that person’s attention: ‘My good man, I am fully aware of these states of misery, but you will have a pleasant experience.’ If he accepts the piece of meat with the words ‘This will give me pleasure,’ then the bodhisatva should give the meat to that person without concern, with the strength of an undiscouraged mind, an unrelenting mind, an undepressed mind, with a mind free of impurities and miserliness. How so? He thinks, ‘Let trouble come to me. Let this person experience pleasure. I will make sure that all sentient beings are happy, and this applies equally to this situation. We should make the person who is in front of us happy.’ This, Śāriputra, is the quality of limitless compassion that bodhisatvas possess. It preserves and guards one’s morality. It enables one to attain awakening.”
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings