The Dharma Council 5.30

5.30

སྤོབས་པ་གང་ཞེ་ན། གང་གིས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཚིམ་པར་བགྱིད་པའོ། །རྒྱུ་དང་རྐྱེན་གྱི་སྤོབས་པ་ཡང་འཐོབ་སྟེ། རྒྱུ་དང་རྐྱེན་གྱི་སྤོབས་པ་གང་ཞེ་ན། གང་གིས་ཕས་ཀྱི་རྒོལ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཚར་གཅོད་པའོ། །སྟོན་པའི་སྤོབས་པ་ཡང་འཐོབ་སྟེ། སྟོན་པའི་སྤོབས་པ་གང་ཞེ་ན། གང་གིས་འཁོར་བཞི་ལ་བག་མི་ཚ་བར་ཆོས་སྟོན་པའོ། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་འདི་ནི་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ་ལགས་པ་སྙམ་བགྱི་ན། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་བདག་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ་དང་འཐུན་པར་བགྱིད་དམ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་བཀའ་སྩལ་པ། མ་འགགས་

It is that which satisfies beings. They also attain the confident eloquence of causes and conditions. What is the confident eloquence of causes and conditions? It is that which defeats all opponents. They also attain the confident eloquence of teaching. What is the confident eloquence of teaching? It is that by which they teach Dharma to the four assemblies without anxiety.

“Blessed One, I wonder if what I said here is a discourse on the Dharma? Blessed One, do you consider my discourse on the Dharma to be in accord with those already given?”

The Blessed One replied, “Aniruddha, your Dharma discourse is in accord.”

The venerable Rāhula next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, a bodhisattva who seeks a Dharma discourse should look for someone who upholds the Dharma. Why? Blessed One, realization of the Dharma comes from those who uphold the Dharma. Thus, those who strive in their search for the Dharma search for those who uphold the Dharma. Why? Blessed One, the Dharma comes from those who prioritize the Dharma, not those who prioritize material goods. It comes from those who take no interest in their body and health, who look beyond the world, and who long for solitude. It does not come from those who are fascinated¹⁷¹ by towns, cities, and markets. It comes from those who are easy to get along with, not from those who are not. It comes from those who are not prideful, not from those who are puffed up with pride. It comes from those who are sensitive, not from those who are stubborn. It comes from those who are good-natured and gentle, not from those whose mindstream is damaged. It comes from those whose minds are withdrawn, not from those whose minds are attached. It comes from those who expose evil deeds, not from those who conceal them.