"Oh good man! I also say in a sutra: "Also, there is retrogression. Why? Because innumerable bhiksus are indolent and lazy, and do not practice the Way’. There are five kinds of retrogression, which are: 1) one likes having many things, 2) having enjoyed, one speaks of worldly things, 3) one loves sleeping, 4) likes to associate himself with people of the secular world, 5) having enjoyed, it undertakes. Because of all this, the bhiksu falls back.
There are two types of causal relations of retrogression, which are: 1) inner, 2) outer. A person of the Arhat stage certainly leaves the inner cause, but not the outer. Due to the external causal relations, the defilements rise to its head. Due to defilements, retrogression comes about. There was a bhiksu called Kutei, who had retrogressed six times. Having retrogressed, he repented and again practiced the Way, and now it was the seventh time. Gaining it, and being afraid of losing it again, he killed himself.
I also, at times, say that there is Emancipation, or talk about the six Arhats. All of my disciples hear this, do not understand my intent, and say: ‘The Tathagata says that there is decidedly retrogression'."
Read more on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 40, on Bodhisattva Kasyapa 1.
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