Samdhinirmocana-sutra

The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaningdesire, although one be said to have rejected desire, onewill revert to desire. Thus fools, having attained the pricelessdoctrine, turn back and wander about begging alms.Rejecting contentious quarreling and abandoning attachmentto opinion, engender superior effort. In order to delivergods and men, you must study this centering.At that time the Bodhisattva Maitreya addressed the Buddhaand said: "World-honored One, how should we designate this teachingin this doctrinal discourse on explicating underlying intent?How should we revere it?"The Buddha answered the Bodhisattva Maitreya and said: "Goodson, it is designated the teaching on the explicit meaning of center-703b ing and you should revere it as such." When this teaching on theexplicit meaning of centering was preached in the assembly, six hundredthousand sentient beings attained supreme awakening; threehundred thousand word-hearers attained purification of their doctrine-eye,undefiled and unpolluted in regard to this doctrine; onehundred fifty thousand word-hearers exhausted their contaminantsand their thought attained liberation; and seventy-five thousandbodhisattvas came to attend to expansive centering. 3376