大方便佛報恩經 1.18

1.18

The Buddha said: "Good sons! Listen closely! Listen closely! Reflect on it well. I shall analyze and explain it for you. Immeasurable hundreds of thousands of buddha-realms to the north of here, there is a world named Sahā. Therein is a buddha called Śākyamuni Tathāgata, Arhat, Samyaksaṃbuddha, Vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna, Sugata, Lokavid, Anuttara, Puruṣadamyasārathi, Śāstā Devamanuṣyāṇām, Buddha, Bhagavat, surrounded by a great assembly. He now wishes to preach the Great Mahopāya Sūtra of Repaying Kindness for the great assembly: because he wishes to benefit all sentient beings; because he wishes to extract the poisoned arrow of perverse doubt from all sentient beings; because he wishes to cause bodhisattvas who have newly resolved [on awakening] to make bodhi firm and not regress; because he wishes to cause all śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas to reach the ultimate single vehicle; because he wishes to cause the great bodhisattvas quickly to attain bodhi and repay the Buddha's kindness; because he wishes to cause all sentient beings to be mindful of weighty kindness; because he wishes to cause sentient beings to cross over the ocean of suffering; and because he wishes to cause sentient beings to care for and nurture their parents with filial piety. For this reason, he emits this light."