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Gyaltsab Je then | Gyaltsab Je then raises a very important question in relation to this sūtra quotation. | ||
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|quote-text=Because there are quotes like that, one should be careful regarding this point. One does not know who is a bodhisattvas and so it is very easy to make this mistake. If one is able to protect oneself from this, then one is able to abandon the door of creating faults with regard to people.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. Chapter Four: Chapter Four: Conscientiousness'' (N.p.: HappyMonksPublication, 2016), 6, https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.</ref> | |quote-text=Because there are quotes like that, one should be careful regarding this point. One does not know who is a bodhisattvas and so it is very easy to make this mistake. If one is able to protect oneself from this, then one is able to abandon the door of creating faults with regard to people.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. Chapter Four: Chapter Four: Conscientiousness'' (N.p.: HappyMonksPublication, 2016), 6, https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.</ref> | ||
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Since it is impossible to know who is a bodhisattva and who is not a bodhisattva, we literally have no idea who other people are and if they are spiritually developed or not, however they may appear to us. Therefore, we must refrain as much as possible from creating faults in regard to others. | |||
The text goes on to explain how if destroying the happiness of just a single living being will bring our own ruin in the lower realms, what need is there to mention acting as an obstacle to a bodhisattva who is intent on the highest welfare for limitless beings. | |||
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