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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.9

The Dharma Council 1.9

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1.9

(4) they watch over beings because they have purified great compassion; (5) they think only of benefiting beings because that is all they strive for; (6) they are not concerned with their own happiness because they are hurt by the suffering of others; (7) they are free from concepts about nirvāṇa because saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are of the same taste; (8) they are characteristically indefatigable because they dispense with their activities effortlessly; (9) they are free of all striving because they do not have a body of flesh; and (10) they are characteristically free of obstacles because they constantly demonstrate passing into nirvāṇa. Child of good family, bodhisattvas should know the state of the thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddhas through these ten approaches to the way of the Dharma.

“Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand the great final nirvāṇa of the thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddhas through ten approaches to the way of the Dharma. What are these ten? (1) Succeeding in abandoning all emotional and cognitive obscurations; (2) understanding the selflessness of persons and phenomena; (3) discovering the transformation of birth and phenomena; (4) attaining the wisdom of uninterrupted and effortless awakened activity done on behalf of all beings; (5) attaining the undifferentiated dharmakāya of all the thus-gone ones; (6) not thinking that saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are two different things; (7) purifying the root of all phenomena; (8) becoming familiar with the fact that all phenomena neither arise nor cease; (9) attaining the wisdom that knows that suchness, the expanse of phenomena, and the limit of reality are the same; and (10) attaining the wisdom that recognizes the equality of the nature of all phenomena and the nature of nirvāṇa. Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand the great final nirvāṇa of the thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddhas through these ten approaches to the way of the Dharma.

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