Part 1 - The instruction to abandon evildoer spiritual friends

Now there is the instruction to abandon evil spiritual friends together with those associated with them:

Thus with a proper relationship with holy persons,
Abandon all evil people and evil spiritual friends.

Teachers without the qualities described above,
Having many bad faults, breaking vows and samayas,
With little kindness, compassion, prajña or learned knowledge,
Are indolent and lazy, unaware and ignorant.

Proud and arrogant, with harsh and vicious disdain,
They are coarsened by kleshas and venomous with the five poisons.
Concerned with this life only, they throw the next far away.
Although they may seem to be teachers of the holy Dharma,
In fact they are of the deceitful family of adharma.

Though these gurus who are like a heap of filth
Attract many students like flies, keep far away from them.

Trusting them leads on perverted paths to the lower realms.
Whoever wants liberation should not rely on them.

Such persons break their vows and samayas and have little compassion or learning. They are as lazy as they are proud. Their vicious jealousy and five poisons are crude and coarse. They seek retinue, possessions, and fame in this life. Even when they stay alone, a rain of distracting activities and kleshas falls around them everywhere. They cast concern with the next life far away. They disparage everyone but themselves, and all Dharmas but their own. Their language is that of the Dharma, and they make a display of being extremely skilful, but in reality, no one’s mind is benefited. Therefore, both their words and sense are in error. Theirs is the family of charlatans. As someone piling up a dung heap collects flies, they collect a numerous retinue. However since they lead those who have faith and want liberation to the lower realms, give them a wide berth. The Sutra of the Treasury of Buddhahood (sangs rgyas mdzod kyi mdo) says:

Worldly enemies only rob us of our lives. We only lose our bodies, and do not also fall into the lower realms. However, ignorant persons who dwell on wrong paths lead those who aspire to virtue into Hell for a thousand kalpas. Why so? Because practicing a Dharma of things and characteristics, they teach a mistaken Dharma. They take the lives of all sentient beings, and when they teach their mistaken Dharma, they do great evil.