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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.15

The Dharma Council 1.15

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1.15

(6) The Thus-Gone One does not think, ‘This being is inferior, this one is average, and this one is superior. I’ll speak in an inferior way to this one, in an average way to this one, and in a superior way to this one.’ Rather, he imparts the teachings of the thus-gone ones nonconceptually, without addition or omission, in accord with the recipient. (7) The Thus-Gone One does not think, ‘This being does not honor me, does not worship me, but disgraces me. I should not speak with that one at all. That one honors me, worships me, venerates me, and sings my praise. I should speak with that one.’ Rather, the Thus-Gone One is impartial, even toward rivals. (8) The Thus-Gone One is not arrogant, careless, attached, angry, covetous, possessive, clinging, servile, or subject to the secondary afflictive emotions. Rather, he speaks in praise of isolation from activity, isolation from desire, and of those who delight in isolation. (9) Because the Thus-Gone One has mirror-like wisdom, he has no lack of knowledge about, ignorance of, or misunderstanding of any kind concerning objects of knowledge. Seeing what is to be done and not done, he engages with beings as appropriate. (10) The Thus-Gone One is not pleased with beings with extensive wealth, nor displeased with beings who are poor. Rather, he extends great uninhibited love to those who have embarked on the correct path, and great uninhibited compassion to those who have embarked on a mistaken path. Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand the approach of the thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddhas through these ten approaches to the way of the Dharma.

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