勸發菩提心集 3.158

3.158

Difficult-to-practice beneficial action is, in brief, of three types: (1) being able to perform beneficial action toward sentient beings who have not previously practiced superior wholesome roots and causes—this is called the first difficulty, because they are difficult to exhort; (2) performing beneficial action toward sentient beings who have wholesome causes but are presently attached to vast wealth, status, and complete material requisites—this is called the second difficulty, because vast negligence and attachment are operating; (3) performing beneficial action toward non-Buddhists who are attached to their own deviant paths, wrong views, and wrong practices—this is called the third difficulty, because they foolishly cling to their own traditions and cling to hatred of and opposition to the correct Dharma and Vinaya.