དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.9
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 7.9
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7.9
“The dharmabhāṇakas who wish to teach this sūtra
Should completely eliminate
All deception, arrogance, and similarly calumny,
And also the wise ones should harbor no envy. {39}
“They will never say anything unpleasant to anyone.
They will never engage in disputes over view.
They will never create a cause for doubt, saying,
‘You will not attain the highest wisdom.’ {40}
“They will always be mindful and gentle
And have the patience of a sugata’s child.
They will teach this Dharma again and again
And they will not have the slightest weariness in doing so. {41}
“The bodhisattvas who are in the ten directions
Are active in the world with compassion for beings.
The wise ones will think, ‘They are all my teachers,’
And they will have toward them the respect one has for a guru. {42}
“They will think of the buddhas, the supreme human beings,
And always conceive of the jinas as their father.
They will eliminate all ideas of pride
And at that time there will arise no obstacles. {43}
“Having heard such Dharma as this,
The wise ones will at that time protect it well.
Because they will remain in happiness and meditation
They will be protected by millions of beings. {44}
“Moreover, Mañjuśrī, when the Tathāgata has passed into nirvāṇa, at the time when the Dharma is abandoned, the bodhisattva mahāsattva bhikṣus who wish to possess this Dharma teaching should dwell farther than far away from householders and renunciants. They should dwell there through dwelling in love. They should have compassion for all those beings who are not yet⁴¹² dedicated to enlightenment. They should think, ‘Oh! Those beings who do not listen to the Tathāgata’s skillful method, to his teaching with an implied meaning, and do not know it, do not understand it, do not ask questions about it, have no faith in it, and have no aspiration for it—those beings have extremely corrupt knowledge . Moreover, those beings are not following and have not understood this Dharma teaching.
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- དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan