འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པའ་སང་གའ་སྒྲ་ཆན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.4

1.4

It is without acceptance or rejection. It is the pacification of suffering and the eradication of craving.’ These are the features on which they should reflect.

“In this regard, Kāśyapa, a monk should go alone to a solitary place, and then, settling inward, he should reflect on the features of the Tathāgata in this way. He should think, ‘I have obtained a human birth, and I have gone forth, obtaining ordination into monkhood. Although I have pleased the Tathāgata, I am lazy and spoiled by the distractions of various kinds of activity, such that I do not know stability. Why is that? It is because I remain in a state in which I will die without ever attaining fruition,¹⁵ and although the blessed buddhas appear in the world as rarely as an udumbara flower, I will not have pleased the blessed buddhas of the present and future.’ That is how a monk should reflect on the features of the Tathāgata.

“In this regard, Kāśyapa, monks should emulate you and the elder Subhūti. That is because of the way that, without seeing me or hearing me, you went forth as a renunciant in emulation of the arhats, the perfectly awakened buddhas, who dwell in this world, Kāśyapa, and became an adornment to this Dharma and Vinaya. For those who have seen the Tathāgata directly, and having seen him approach him to make the request to go forth as renunciants and take full ordination as monks, their going forth is also authorized by the Tathāgata afterwards.

“A son or daughter of noble family should make the commitment to go forth in this well-proclaimed Dharma and Vinaya by seeing its two objectives. What are the two? They are to attain fruition in this very life