勸發菩提心集 3.157

3.157

一切利行，略有二種：一未成熟有情能成熟利行、二已成熟有情令解脫利行。復由三門：一於現法利勸導利行、二於後法利勸導利行、三於現後利勸導利行。於現法利勸導利行者，謂勸導以法業德招集守護增長財位，由此能令獲大名稱及現法樂，由資具樂攝受安住。於後法利勸導利行者，正勸導棄捨財位清淨出家，受乞求行以自存活，由此能令決定獲得後法安樂，不必獲得現法安樂。於現後利勸導利行者，正勸導在家或出家者，漸次修行趣向離欲，由此能令現得輕安，後生淨天或無餘依界般涅槃。

All beneficial actions are, in brief, of two types: (1) beneficial actions able to mature immature sentient beings; (2) beneficial actions that cause matured sentient beings to attain liberation. Furthermore, through three gates: (1) beneficial actions of exhortation toward benefit in the present life; (2) beneficial actions of exhortation toward benefit in future lives; (3) beneficial actions of exhortation toward benefit in both present and future lives. Beneficial actions of exhortation toward benefit in the present life means exhorting them to gather, protect, and increase wealth and status through dharmic work and virtue, which enables them to obtain great renown and present-life joy, abiding in the embrace of the joy of requisites. Beneficial actions of exhortation toward benefit in future lives means correctly exhorting them to abandon wealth and status, purely go forth as renunciants, and sustain themselves by practicing begging, which enables them to definitely obtain future-life peace and joy, though not necessarily obtaining present-life peace and joy. Beneficial actions of exhortation toward benefit in both present and future lives means correctly exhorting householders or renunciants to gradually practice toward detachment from desires, which enables them to obtain pliancy in the present and be reborn in pure heavens or attain parinirvāṇa in the realm without remainder in the future.