འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.20

5.20

That which leads to this understanding of imputation is a discourse on the Dharma.

“Blessed One, a Dharma discourse, the one who discourses on the Dharma, and those who receive a Dharma discourse are all like this: they have the sole characteristic of being identified as the expanse of phenomena. I wonder if this is a discourse on the Dharma? Blessed One, do you consider my discourse on the Dharma in accord with those already given?”

The Blessed One said, “Maudgalyāyana, your Dharma discourse is in accord.”

The venerable Pūrṇa Maitrāyaṇīputra next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, a Dharma discourse by one who seeks merit is a flawed Dharma discourse. Why? Blessed One, someone who is attached to the self has habitual adherence and creates karmic formations that are meritorious, demeritorious, and static.¹⁶¹ Someone who is attached to the self has habitual adherence and has not freed themselves from views or the holding of views. They are unable to heal themselves or others.¹⁶² Blessed One, how could someone who is unable to heal themselves or others give a discourse on the Dharma?¹⁶³ Blessed One, someone who seeks the Dharma neither seeks karmic formations that are meritorious, demeritorious, and static, nor does not seek them. Someone who seeks all phenomena neither seeks the aggregates nor does not seek them; they neither seek the elements nor do not seek them; they neither seek the sense bases nor do not seek them; they neither seek beings nor do not seek them;