法苑珠林 19.53

19.53

“Shaving the head and wearing the kāṣāya, / Whether upholding precepts or violating precepts, / Devas and humans may make offerings to them, / Constantly ensuring they lack for nothing. / To make offerings to them in this way / Is to make offerings to me. / If, out of reverence for the Dharma, / One takes refuge and shaves one's head, / Wearing the kāṣāya robes on one's body, / I proclaim that person to be my child. / Even if they violate the prohibitory precepts, / They still dwell on the stage of non-retrogression. / If anyone strikes and beats them, / That is beating my own body; / If anyone scolds and insults them, / That is scolding and insulting me. / Such a person wishes to extinguish / The great bright lamp of the true Dharma; / Contending together over wealth, / The kṣatriyas join in producing anger.”