སྐུལ་བར་བྱེད། འཛིན་དུ་འཇུག ། འཕགས་པའི་ལམ་སྲང་དུ་འཛུད་དེ། དེ་བས་ན་སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། དེ་ནས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་དེའི་ཚེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདི་དག་གསུངས་སོ། །
“Sentient beings take three courses. What are these three courses? They are a slope that leads toward the lower realms of existence, a hill that leads toward the lower realms of existence, or an abyss that opens into the lower realms of existence. This is the case for anyone who lives in a corrupt way. The only way to avoid these three courses is morality, patience, and learning. Oh, how lost they are, these sentient beings who go about their business thinking, ‘I’! Oh, how lazy they are, these sentient beings who vigorously pursue things thinking, ‘I’! The learned ones, Śāriputra, the bodhisatvas, do not make friends with or rely upon lazy sentient beings who are engaged in useless business. Instead, they will rely upon bodhisatvas who vigorously pursue an appropriate path of conduct. Why do they do this? Śāriputra, there is no nirvāṇa that is higher than the final nirvāṇa of a buddha. Śāriputra, the bodhisatva who has the motivation to become purified and who vigorously pursues this does not do so only to attain peace for himself, but he works with vigor for the benefit and happiness of all sentient beings. In order to be able to do this, he gains understanding, teaches them, encourages them, inspires them, and helps them onto the noble path. This is the kind of honorable man we call a bodhisatva.”
Jewels, Water, Bodhisattvas