འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.10

3.10

They then elevate their thinking beyond this, and in doing so actualize the fact that there is no arising and no ceasing. They see that all phenomena do not arise and do not cease. Seeing that all phenomena do not cease by their very nature, they neither accept nor reject them. It is on account of this that bodhisattvas have the pure acceptance of the nonarising of phenomena. From this point such bodhisattvas unceasingly and effortlessly proceed higher.

“These are the nine successive states of meditative attainment of bodhisattvas.

“What are the bodhisattva’s ten strengths? The strength of conviction, the strength of discernment, the strength of cultivation, the strength of patience, the strength of wisdom, the strength of abandonment, the strength of learning, the strength of confident eloquence, the strength of merit, and the strength of practice.

“What is the strength of conviction? It entails that everything the bodhisattva has conviction in is how things turn out to be. The strength of conviction is such that the world with its gods cannot overcome it. This is known as a bodhisattva’s strength of conviction.

“What is a bodhisattva’s strength of discernment? Bodhisattvas quell the arising of attachment by cultivating a sense of unpleasantness. They quell the arising of anger by cultivating love. They quell the arising of dullness by cultivating an understanding of dependent arising. They quell belligerent and unkind statements by reflecting on the knowledge that they are like echoes. They quell killing, bondage, and imprisonment through the knowledge that they are the result of one’s own karma. They quell physical threats, physical harms, and physical hardship through the knowledge that they are like reflected images. In this way, they see a gateway to a bodhisattva’s purification wherever they see a gateway to defilement. This is known as a bodhisattva’s strength of discernment.