ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དགེ་སློང་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བ་མངོན་པར་བརྩོན་པ་དག་ལ་མདོ་སྡེ་རྣམས་བརྩམས་ན་བདུད་སྡིག་ཅན་ཚིག་གཞིག་པར་བྱེད་དེ། དེ་ནི་བར་དུ་གཅོད་པ་དང་པོ་སྟེ། མཁས་པས་ཁོང་དུ་ཆུད་པར་བྱའི། དེའི་དབང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་མི་བྱའོ། །
“Also, Śāriputra, at that time of the disappearance of the true Dharma there will be followers of the Mahāyāna who will apply themselves to sūtras like this one. They will exert themselves with great vigor, and they will learn them, memorize them, recite them, absorb them, explain them, clarify them to others, and teach them in great detail. They will, though, encounter ten obstacles, and because of these obstacles, they will not be influenced by the understanding of the learned ones, even though this understanding will be available to them, and even if they apply themselves with vigor. What are these ten obstacles that will mean that the understanding of learned ones will not have any effect, even when it is available?
Meditation, Ritual, Enlightenment