Post by Neo on Oct 18, 2020 21:10:57 GMT -5
The Noble Mahayana Sanghata Sutra Dharmaparyaya.
Then, just like that arrogant person, common ordinary people, having taken a sign from the form, color, sex and figure of the Tathagata, think, `This is the body of a Tathagata'. Then, having heard many Dharma teachings, they fall into arrogance. They speak various sorts of nonsense. Overcome by self-interest and selfishness, they do not hear the Dharma themselves nor do they proclaim it.
If someone explains a sutra, a stanza or so much as an example to them, they neither grasp it nor are they attentive, but rather they say, `We know this ourselves.' What is the reason for that? It is because of this arrogance that they become infatuated with their own learnedness. Those who associate with common ordinary people, and do not hear such speech connected with the Dharma, will be infatuated with that learnedness. Such men put out their own poems. They put out their own literary compositions and prefaces. They cause misfortune to the whole world and to themselves.