11. As are one’s associates, as is what one holds fast to, so will one become in a short while: examine well, then, whom you associate with, as you would a basket of fruit.
de bas ’bras bu’i snod bźin du || bdag gis bsten pa śes pa yis || dam pa ma yin mi bstan ciṅ || mkhas pas dam pa (2)bsten byas la || dge sloṅ de’i lam rjes ’braṅ na || sdug bsṅal zad pa thob par ’gyur ||2