སྤོང་བར་འགྱུར་རོ། ། ཡང་ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པས་གསུངས་པའི་མདོ་སྡེ་འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་ཚིག་དང་འབྲུའི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ཐོས་ནས་ཐོས་མ་ཐག་ཏུ་མོས་པར་མི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་སེམས་ཅན་གང་ངན་སོང་དུ་འགྲོ་བའི་སེམས་ཅན་དེ་ལྟ་བུ་དག་ནི་སྨོད་པར་བྱེད་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་མ་ཉམས་པ་ནི་སེར་སྣ་དང་། ཕྲག་དོག་གི་གཞི་འདི་ལྟ་བུ་ངན་སོང་དུ་འགྲོ་བའི་ལས་ཐོས་ནས་ ཁྱིམ་གྱི་སེར་སྣ་མ་བྱས་པ་ཡང་མི་བྱེད། ཁྱིམ་གྱི་སེར་སྣ་བྱས་པ་ཡང་འཆགས་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ལྟར་ན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་མ་ཉམས་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལ་སྤྱོད་དོ། ། གཞན་ཡང་ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་མ་ཉམས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལ་སྤྱོད་པ་ན་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ནད་པར་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་དེ། སེམས་ཅན་དེ་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་ནི་གདུང་བའི་ནད་འདི་གསུམ་གྱིས་རྟག་ཏུ་གདུངས་སོ། །
When the venerable Śāriputra had said this, the Lord spoke to him, “Excellent, Śāriputra, excellent. You are sincere and honest, and it is excellent that you have thought to ask the Tathāgata about this. Therefore, Śāriputra, I will now give instructions for the sake of those in the world who wish to study the training of the Buddha. Why will I do so? The unlearned, Śāriputra, engage in arguments, which are the root of hostility. Bodhisatvas, Śāriputra, have faith, great faith, and will engage in investigation for a long time, will engage in investigation for extensive periods, in order to protect sentient beings. They will approach the Tathāgata and pose to him questions, and when they hear these kinds of teachings they will be very happy, joyful, and delighted, and they will pursue them with sincerity. Śāriputra, there are few sentient beings who hold the supreme aspiration of attaining final nirvāṇa. Most of them, though, are concerned with three things. What are these three things? They are interested in gain, in respect, and in praise. They are interested in finding friendly families and families that will provide them with food. They are interested in the power that comes from controlling land. These are the three things they are concerned with. Because they are concerned with these three things, [MS.101.a] they will not be liberated from the three lower states of existence. They have little inclination to be freed from hell, to be freed from the realm of animals, or to be freed from the spirit world governed by Yama. Their ambitions result in heaven being lost to them. They engage in discussions, quarrels, shouting, division, and disputes, and these things absorb their attention. They lack faith, they abandon a life of solitude, and they gather many acquaintances. Householders will tell them, ‘Venerable ones, you should come and stay close to our dwellings, so that we can provide you with clothing, food, bedding, seats, medicine for the sick, and utensils. If the venerable ones remain in remote dwellings, you will not see us, and we will not be able to see you.’ After many such encounters and discussions, they become fond of particular dwellings. They become attached to their dwellings. They remain in the same place for long periods of time. They become friendly with many families who provide them with food, and because they see them regularly, a mutual attachment develops. Then, when any unfamiliar mendicants arrive there, they will talk about them in unflattering terms, saying things such as, ‘They are not learned. They are not stream enterers. They are not once-returners. They are not non-returners. They are not arhats.’ They will repeatedly describe them in these and other unflattering terms. Then, Śāriputra, these householders will think, ‘Mendicants who just happen to come by should not stay with us for a long time, but we should develop a mutually beneficial relationship with those mendicants who remain here.’ Miserliness develops among them.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings