妙法蓮華經 2.3

2.3

At that time Śāriputra leaped up with joy, immediately rose, joined his palms, gazed up at the Bhagavat's countenance, and said to the Buddha: "Now hearing this voice of the Dharma from the Bhagavat, my heart leaps, obtaining what it had never before experienced. Why is this? Formerly, hearing such Dharma from the Buddha and seeing the Bodhisattvas receive their vyākaraṇa to become Buddhas, yet not sharing in this matter, I felt deeply aggrieved that I had lost the Tathāgata's immeasurable knowledge and vision. Bhagavat, I was often dwelling alone under trees in mountain forests; whether sitting or walking, I constantly had this thought: 'Since we equally enter the reality of phenomena, why has the Tathāgata delivered us through the Hīnayāna Dharma?' This was our own fault, not the Bhagavat's. Why? If we had waited for the explanation of the causes for accomplishing anuttarā samyaksambodhi, we surely would have been delivered through the Mahāyāna. Yet we did not understand the upāya spoken according to what was fitting; when first hearing the Buddha's Dharma, we merely believed, accepted, reflected on, and realized it on the spot. Bhagavat, from the past until now, all day and through the night I constantly reproached myself. But now, hearing from the Buddha the Dharma never heard before, the unexcelled Dharma, I have severed all doubts and regrets; my body and mind are at ease, comfortably secure. Today at last I know that I am truly a son of the Buddha, born from the Buddha's mouth, born transformed from the Dharma, obtaining a share of the Buddha's Dharma."