修行人要避免眾生心；眾生心，是事事站在自己的立場，只顧自己的利益，不能隨順對方的需求。若不能隨順對方時，也應學會婉轉推卻，不啟發他人惡根，損他威德，否則會使人產生不良印象，因而失去信佛的因緣。
　　A practitioner should avoid producing a mind of sentient beings, as such a mind considers all things on the perspective of oneself, caring only one’s own benefits, and doesn’t go along with what others may want and desire. When it is difficult to follow with what others want, they should learn how to tactfully decline so as not to inspire negative roots of others that would harm their virtue and dignity. Otherwise, it may lead people to have a negative impression of practitioners and miss the causes and conditions to believe in the Buddha.