འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.18

5.18

Instead, there is a Dharma discourse for those who believe that the Dharma teachings of the noble ones are rare and precious, that they are medicine. Blessed One, there is a Dharma discourse for those who do not praise themselves or disparage others. Blessed One, there is a Dharma discourse for those who feel affection for the noble ones and who help the ignoble. There is a Dharma discourse for those who do not aggrandize themselves or regard others as beneath them. Blessed One, there is a Dharma discourse for those who regard those equal to them as equal, those not equal as equal, those neither equal nor not equal as equal, and those who do not hold concepts of being equal or unequal. Blessed One, there is a Dharma discourse for those who hear a single word and then take from it and understand the meaning and arrangement of a hundred thousand words, and who do not distinguish between text and meaning. Blessed One, there is a Dharma discourse for those who are neither calmed nor distracted after hearing the Dharma, who are neither bound nor free after hearing the Dharma, who neither accept nor reject after hearing the Dharma, who neither diminish nor increase after hearing the Dharma, who feel neither faith nor hostility after hearing the Dharma, and who neither remain in saṃsāra nor pass into nirvāṇa after hearing the Dharma.

“Blessed One, I wonder if there is a Dharma discourse for those who realize the basic nature through this Dharma discourse. Blessed One, do you consider what I have said to be in accord with the Dharma discourse already given?”

The Blessed One replied, “Śāriputra,