"....In that age there will be evil monks who will steal this sutra and divide it
into many parts, losing the color, scent, and flavor of the correct
teaching that it contains. These evil men will read and recite this sutra, but
they will ignore and put aside the profound and vital principles that the Thus
Come One has expounded in it and replace them with ornate rhetoric and
meaningless talk. They will tear off the first part of the sutra and stick it on
at the end, tear off the end and put it at the beginning, put the end and the
beginning in the middle and the middle at the beginning or the end. You must
understand that these evil monks are the companions of the devil.” -- The Opening of the Eyes
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