法苑珠林 46.29

46.29

Furthermore, the Daśabhūmika-vibhāṣā states: "When a lay bodhisattva sees a person who breaks the precepts, he should not give rise to anger or contempt. He should give rise to a mind of compassion and benefit, employing skillful means to admonish and restrain him, causing him to give rise to a wholesome mind. If, despite bitter remonstrance, he does not reform and instead slanders, one also must not become angry or falsely view the other's faults. For in this Bhadrakalpa, it is heard that there was a bodhisattva who slandered Krakucchanda Buddha, saying: 'How could a bald-headed person attain the Way?' Such sentient beings are difficult to fathom. What they do, they themselves receive; what does it have to do with me? If one wishes to judge another, one may harm oneself. To measure sentient beings is not permitted by the Buddha." As it is said in a sūtra: