འཕགས་པ་དཔལ་སྦས་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 25

25

Arise from the poison of anger;
Anger is the worst poison.

“All the poisonous trees
And all the poisonous animals
Arise from the poison of delusion;
Delusion is the worst poison.

“The buddhas have conquered the fiercest poisons;
They have protected and shielded us from them.
Because all buddhas have conquered poisons,
I take refuge in the perfectly awakened ones.

“Perform it in that manner.”

The householder Śrīgupta accepted these verses in the presence of the Blessed One and recited them three times over the food. He then served many pleasing dishes to the assembled monks with his own hands, so that they were satisfied.

When the householder Śrīgupta learned that the Blessed One and the assembled monks had finished their meals and had washed their hands and put their alms bowls away, he rose from his seat and sat to one side. With Śrīgupta seated to the side, the Blessed One spoke to him about the following subjects in sequence: generosity, moral discipline, higher rebirth, the faults of desire and the pollutions that flow from it, impurity, the benefits of renunciation, and purity.

The Blessed One then instructed the householder Śrīgupta in greater detail; he set forth, explained, classified, and clarified. When he realized that the householder Śrīgupta’s mind had become joyful, flexible, virtuous, and unpolluted, the Blessed One instructed, set forth, explained, classified, clarified, and explained in still greater detail the most sublime teachings taught by the blessed buddhas.

While still on his seat, the householder Śrīgupta developed the dustless and unobscured Dharma eye.