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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.3

The Dharma Council 1.3

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1.3

one will swiftly gain the higher cognitions. Through meditative stability, one’s mind will become pliable. Through insight, one will rise above all worlds. Through skillful means, one will adapt to any situation. Through aspiration, one will face no difficulties. Through strength, one will be invulnerable. Through wisdom, one will teach in all the worlds. Through renunciation, one will attain nobility. By going forth, one will quell all harmful thoughts. By living on alms, one will become irreproachable. By living in solitude, one will become fearless. And through inward composure, one will achieve meditative stability, the higher cognitions, and the brahmā states.

“By examining the Dharma just as it was heard and by teaching it accurately, one will attain correct discernment. Through expertise in mindfulness, one will attain dhāraṇī. Through expertise in confident eloquence, one will attain the wisdom of accurate prophesy.¹¹ Through skillful intelligence, one will attain the wisdom that discerns between phenomena and their meaning.¹² Through expertise in dedication, one will attain fearlessness. Through expertise in the aggregates, one will develop discerning insight. Through expertise in the elements, one will access the knowledge¹³ of subtle dependent arising. Through expertise in the sense bases, one will relinquish confusion regarding the internal and external. Through expertise in truth, one will not deceive any beings. Through expertise in attention, one will please all the buddhas. Through expertise in meditative calm, the mind will be pacified. And, through expertise in meditative insight, the mind will be tamed.

“Without pride, one will perfect the wisdom of omniscience. Without arrogance, one will be trustworthy. By not deceiving any beings, one will have a singular power.¹⁴ Being firm in one’s commitments delights gods and humans.

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