受和尚教,
当愿众生,
入无生智,
到无依处。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品11: 第25偈)
[When] receiving guiding teachers’* teachings,
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings
enter [the] wisdom [of] non-birth, **
[to] reach [the] place*** [of] non-attachment.
– Manjusri Bodhisattva
(Avatamsaka Sutra: Chapter 11 On Pure Practices: Verse 25)
* Or Preceptors
** As all phenomena only constantly change, without actual birth from nowhere
*** Or stage