ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ལྟར་ན་ཁྱིམ་ལ་སེར་སྣ་བྱེད་པ་ཆོས་དཀར་པོ་ཡོངས་སུ་ཉམས་པར་འགྱུར་བའོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་ཁྱིམ་ལ་སེར་སྣ་བྱེད་པ་ལ་གནས་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ་དེ་དག་གིས་སྡོམ་པ་དང་། སྡོམ་པ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཡོངས་སུ་བཏང་བར་འགྱུར་ཏེ། སྡོམ་པ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྗེས་སུ་སློབ་པར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ།། །། བམ་པོ་བཅུ་བཞི་པ། །ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་བས་ན་རྣམ་གྲངས་འདིས་ཀྱང་འདི་ལྟར་ཤེས་པར་བྱ་སྟེ།
“Śāriputra, a mendicant who has this kind of attitude will become envious and miserly, thinking, ‘I have been promised things before. How can I continue to receive them? I have been guaranteed things before. How can I continue to receive them?’ If householders promise him bowls, clothing, and food, [MS.96.a] bedding, medicine, and utensils, and he thinks, ‘Well, they promised me certain things, and now when I come to collect them they do not give them to me,’ he makes three mistakes. What are these three mistakes? He sees the place as bad, and thinks, ‘I will leave this place.’ He knows what is not worth knowing. He does not know what should be known. Whatever he concerns himself with, he cannot be trusted, and he develops bad habits in his relations with householders. The mendicant talks about three things. What three things does he talk about? He talks about the faults of the dwelling. He expresses his dissatisfaction and dismisses the house. He makes false excuses, saying, ‘They are deceitful, these wicked men,’ and he teaches the Dharma believing his own statements. This, Śāriputra, is how miserliness in one’s relations with families leads to good qualities becoming corrupted.
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