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淨名經集解關中疏 2.240

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"Or he becomes the master of a town, / Or acts as a merchant guide, / A royal preceptor, or a great minister, / To assist and benefit sentient beings. / For those who are poor, / He manifests inexhaustible treasuries, / And thereby encourages and guides them, / Causing them to generate the bodhicitta. / For those whose minds are arrogant, / He manifests as a great wrestler, / Subduing and overcoming all their haughtiness, / Causing them to abide in the Buddha's supreme path. / Those who have fright and dread, / He stands before them and comforts them: / First bestowing fearlessness upon them, / He later causes them to generate the aspiration for the path." / Zhao says: "An arrogant mind exalts itself like a mountain peak that cannot retain water. The bodhisattva manifests as a wrestler to subdue their haughty mind, and thereafter moistens them with the Dharma-water."

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