大比丘三千威儀 1.46

1.46

When rising at night to chant scriptures, there are five matters: first, one must not think, 'My scriptures and precepts are sharp, and others are not as good as me'; second, if one is not fluent, one must not say, 'My scriptures and precepts are not fluent solely because the affairs of a certain bhikṣu disturbed my mind'; third, one must not sit and dwell on others' faults; fourth, if tomorrow one wishes to ask about one's doubts, one must not speak of extraneous things, but should directly speak only of what one does not understand; fifth, one must not harbor the thought, 'I should take the words in this scripture to go question others and corner them'—merely having such a thought is not the method of a worthy one.