正出家时,
当愿众生,
同佛出家,
救护一切。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品11: 第19偈)
Just when renouncing household [life],*
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
like the Buddha, renounce [their] household [lives],**
to save and protect all beings.’***
– Manjusri Bodhisattva
(Avatamsaka Sutra: Chapter 11 On Pure Practices: Verse 19)
* to be monastics
** eventually, in this or future lives
*** physically and spiritually