[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Dharmasaṅgīti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo) › [The Dharma Council](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000) › 3.11 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.11 The Dharma Council 3.11 - **Language:** English ### [3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.11) “What is a bodhisattva’s strength of cultivation? Phenomena that are disruptive to the level of dedicated conduct and the level of seeing have no capacity to affect the bodhisattva. Because of that, the world with its gods do not have the capacity to separate the bodhisattva from that seeing, from that path. This is known as a bodhisattva’s strength of cultivation. “What is a bodhisattva’s strength of patience? When mocked, bodhisattvas do not respond with mockery due to the force of their understanding that it is the same as the sound of an echo. When threatened and beaten, they do not respond with threats and beatings due to the force of their understanding that they are like a reflected image. When abused, they do not respond with abuse due to the force of their understanding that the mind is an illusion. When they meet with anger, they do not respond with anger due to the force of their understanding of inner purity. They are not seduced by worldly phenomena due to the force of their understanding that worldly phenomena are pure. They are not under the sway of any afflictive emotions due to the force of their understanding that dependent arising is pure. Thus, bodhisattvas see the gateway to peace wherever they see a gateway to agitation. This is known as a bodhisattva’s strength of patience. “What is a bodhisattva’s strength of wisdom? To bodhisattvas, whatever knowledge there is about the aggregates, elements, or sense bases is empty, unarisen, and unceasing. It is the wisdom through which the awakening of buddhahood is achieved. No rival tradition,⁸⁸ no one involved in apprehending things,⁸⁹ nor any māra has the ability to sow doubts about it, even if they take the form of a buddha. This is known as a bodhisattva’s strength of wisdom. “What is a bodhisattva’s strength of abandonment? If bodhisattvas were living in a certain place, and all the beings approached them and reviled them, defamed them, spoke harshly to them, or even debased the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha, they would not be agitated by or be displeased with them. - [Previous: 3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.10) - [Next: 3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.12) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo.3.11) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.11) · Pramāṇa