འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.9

2.9

“ ‘The service of those who keep to worldly material things
Will all be for the benefit of the present life.
The immaterial service of the Dharma
Leads to the greatest benefit for humans. {3}

“ ‘Those who have a nonmaterialistic motivation
And teach the nonmaterial Dharma,
Those individuals who gain nonmaterial joy,
They will quickly attain buddhahood. {4}

“ ‘Those who are addicted to their desires,
Who crave for children and wives,
Who are addicted to their revolting homes,
Will not attain unsurpassable, highest enlightenment. {5}

“ ‘Supreme enlightenment will not be difficult to attain
For those who avoid desire as if it were a pit of fire,
Who abandon craving for children and wives,
And, frightened and terrified, leave their homes. {6}

“ ‘There have been no buddhas in the past,
Nor will there be any in the future or now in the present,
Who attain the highest, most supreme enlightenment
While living inside their homes. {7}

“ ‘Casting away a kingdom like a lump of phlegm,
Longing for solitude and living in the forests,
Eliminating the kleśas and defeating the māras,
They will realize stainless, noncomposite enlightenment. {8}

“ ‘People who, with a disenchanted mind,
Leave their homes, they are superior
To those who serve, for many millions of eons,
Heroic buddhas as numerous as the Ganges sands. {9}

“ ‘People who leave their homes and practice the Dharma,
Without serving the supreme humans, the jinas,
With food, drink, and Dharma robes,
With flowers, incense, and ointments— {10}

“ ‘Those who, longing for enlightenment,
Disillusioned with the composite, and for the benefit of beings,
Take seven steps in the direction of the forests—
They will have the superior merit.’ {11}

“Young man, King Mahābala heard what the Bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened Buddha Ghoṣadatta said about leaving one’s home. Having heard this, he thought, ‘I have understood the Bhagavān’s teaching to mean that he does not praise the perfection of generosity,