四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 1.360

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然眾貴老宿大德，自力牽課，方能進道。必不自知，妄攝眷屬，愚叢自守，不相長益，號季少也。故律中，阿難頭白，而迦葉號為季少。訶言：汝眾欲失，汝季少比丘，俱不善閉諸根，貪不知足，初夜後夜不能勤修，遍至諸家但行破穀，汝眾當失。以此文證，阿難善知法相，又是無學，尚被譏責；自餘凡鄙，焉可自輕。必欲綱眾於時，住持護法者，須自行清慎，雅操堅貞，博通律相、兼明二乘，識覽時要，達究情性者。可準上文，一方秉御。

However, the assembly values senior and venerable elders who, through their own effort, lead and urge them on, so that they are able to advance on the path. If an elder does not know himself, wrongly gathers followers, and clings foolishly to his own group without mutual growth and benefit, he is termed "junior and deficient". Therefore, in the Vinaya, though Ānanda's hair was white, Kāśyapa called him "junior and deficient", rebuking him: 'Your assembly is about to be lost; you, junior bhikṣu, both fail to properly guard the sense faculties, are greedy and insatiable, unable to practice diligently in the early and late night, and roam about to various households merely destroying grain; your assembly shall be lost.' Proved by this text, Ānanda understood the marks of dharmas well and was moreover an aśaikṣa, yet he was still censured; how can the rest of us, ordinary and lowly, make light of ourselves? If one truly wishes to direct the assembly in these times, to sustain and protect the Dharma, one must be pure and prudent in one's own conduct, firm and upright in noble integrity, broadly versed in Vinaya characteristics, knowledgeable in both vehicles, observant of the requirements of the times, and thoroughly understanding of human character. Only such a person may follow the above text to guide and govern a locality.