“We say ‘fruition of befriending’. For example, there is a man who befriends a good person [i.e., with a Good Teacher of Buddhism], and as a result he gains the fruits from the Srotapanna up to Arhatship. The person says: 'I now gain the fruition of befriending'. The case is thus. Such fruition has two causes, namely: 1) the near cause, and 2) the far out cause. The near (cause) is the faith; the far out (cause) is the good friend. This is the fruition from friendship.”
Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 42 - On Bodhisattva Kasyapa 3.
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