念报佛恩，当持经戒，相率以道。
道不可不学，经不可不读，善不可不行。
行善布德，济神离苦，超出生死。
见贤勿慢，见善勿谤，不以小过证入大罪。
违法失理，其罪莫大，罪福有证，可不慎耶！
— 释迦牟尼佛
《阿难问事佛吉凶经》
To mindfully repay the Buddha’s kindness, you should uphold the sūtras and precepts, with one after another, according to the path. The path cannot be not learnt, the sūtras cannot be not studied, and good cannot be not practised. Practise good and generosity’s virtues, to aid the consciousness to depart from suffering, and to surpass the cycle of birth and death. When seeing the virtuous, do not slight, and when seeing the good, do not slander. Do not with small mistakes confirm as entering of great transgressions. With violating of the Dharma, losing its principles, as this transgression is with none greater, while transgressions and blessings will have their confirmations, you cannot be not cautious!
— Śākyamuni Buddha
(The Sūtra In Which Ānanda Inquired UponThe Buddha On The Auspicious And Inauspicious)
