"Oh good man! Someone with Wisdom knows that what a gandhahastin (musky elephant) loads cannot be supported by a donkey. All beings do innumerable things. Thus, the Tathagata speaks innumerable things variously. Why? Because beings possess various defilements. If the Tathagata spoke only of one action, we could not say that the Tathagata was perfect and accomplished in the power of seeing through the qualities of the roots of all things. So I say in a sutra: 'I do not speak to the five kinds of people the five kinds of things. To one who has no faith, (I say) one who does not profess the right faith; to anyone who violates the prohibition, (I say) one who does not extols the upholding of precepts; to the stingy, (I say) someone who does not extols the dana [giving]; to the indolent, (I say) of learning; and to the ignorant, (I say) of Wisdom.
Why not? If a wise person speaks to these five kinds of people about these five things, know that cannot be said that such preacher possess the power to see through the qualities of the roots of all things; cannot be said that (he) have pity of beings. Why not? Because these five kinds of people, when they hear these [things], will acquire a skeptical mind, an angry mind, and in consequence of this, will suffer painful karmic results for innumerable ages."
Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 40 - On Bodhisattva Kasyapa 1.
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