If you wish to cultivate yourselves
In the right practice, you can do so
Staying at home and need not
Enter a monastery. If you can do so
At home, you are like a person of the east
Whose mind is good.
If you enter a monastery and do not
Practice it, you are like a person of the
West whose mind is deluded.
If your mind is pure and clean,
It is the Western Paradise of your
Own nature.

Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa (1st c. BCE-), The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa (sometimes referred to as the Vimalakīrti Sūtra or Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra) is a Buddhist text which centers on a lay Buddhist meditator who attained a very high degree of enlightenment considered by some second only to the Buddha's. The word nirdeśa in the title means "instruction, advice", and Vimalakīrti is the name of the main protagonist of the text, and means "Taintless Fame".