ལུས་ཀྱིས་ལྟ་ག་ལ་ཞིག་རེག་སྟེ། བདག་གིས་ནི་ད་ལྟར་མཉེས་པར་བྱས་པས། དགེ་བའི་ལུས་ཐོབ་ཀྱིས། སྦྱིན་གནས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཉེ་བར་འཚོ་བར་བྱ་ཞིང་ལུས་དང་སྲོག་ལ་མི་ལྟ་བར་སློབ་དཔོན་ལ་རིམ་གྲོ་དང་། བསྙེན་བཀུར་བྱའོ་ཞེས། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་ལྔ་པ་དེ་བསྐྱེད་ནས་ བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡེ་སྣོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ཡོངས་སུ་ཚོལ་བས་སློབ་དཔོན་ལ་རིམ་གྲོ་དང་། བསྙེན་བཀུར་བྱེད་དེ ཐ་ན་ཆུ་བུམ་པ་གང་ཙམ་ཡང་འབུལ་ལོ། །
“Furthermore, Śāriputra, the bodhisatva cultivates the following thought: ‘For a long time I had no spiritual friends. Surrounded by evil friends, I was lazy, I had little vigor, I was idle and stupid, and I had the sort of opinions, the sort of tendencies, and the sort of convictions that led me to believe that even if one were to engage in the wicked acts of piling up the flesh of all sentient beings, and of squeezing the flesh of all living creatures together, no evil would be involved, that no evil would come from that. I believed that even if one were to give all sentient beings enough gifts to fill all the oceans, no good would be involved, that no good would come from that. I believed that even if one were to kill enough sentient beings to fill an ocean, if one were to cut up their bodies, no evil would be involved, that no evil would come from that. Because of these beliefs, I was not able to distinguish between good and evil. Relying on evil ideas and overcome by confusion, I developed many evil, unwholesome habits, and as a result of these unwholesome habits I had to endure terrible lower states of existence, such as hell. In the hell realm I was burned, I swallowed embers, and I experienced only sharp suffering, torture, and destruction, and eventually I died. For many hundreds of thousands of years I did not even hear the word pleasant, much less experience anything pleasant. In this kind of state I had no inclination to serve those who are worthy of veneration. Now that I have attained this fortunate state and my motivation is good, [MS.64.b] I will dedicate my life to those who are worthy of veneration, and I will serve the teachers with no concern for my body, my life or my honor.’
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings