指を鳴らす間だけでも慈しみの想いを育むことが真の比丘の名にふさわしいと教える経で、放逸の危険についての先の経に怯えた比丘たちを安心させるために説かれた。

A discourse teaching that even cultivating a thought of goodwill for the duration of a finger-snap earns one the name of a true monk, taught to reassure monks frightened by an earlier discourse on the dangers of indulgence.