འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.13
The Dharma Council 3.13
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3.13
They know that they are helpless and flee. The fall of their blades, spears, tridents, stones, and axes will become, through the blessings of the bodhisattva’s merit, a fall of mandārava flowers, campaka flowers,⁹² and jasmine flowers,⁹³ water lilies and lotuses, and the māras’ rough, harsh words will sound like praise to the bodhisattva. The six sense objects never appear unpleasant to the bodhisattva, and all manner of wondrous things spring from space with just a thought. Through the power of a bodhisattva’s merit, all manner of wondrous things spring from the sky treasury and the jewel-in-hand, so that they become a support for all beings. Through the power of their merit, the jewel-in-hand lasts for the eons that constitute their lives, but even saying this does not easily capture the full extent of the strength of a bodhisattva’s merit. This is what is known as a bodhisattva’s strength of merit.
“What is a bodhisattva’s strength of practice? A bodhisattva’s strength of practice has ten types: the practice of generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative stability, insight, skillful means, aspiration, strength, and wisdom. These are known as a bodhisattva’s ten types of practice. Any of a bodhisattva’s practices that involve the perfections should be included among these ten practices.
“What is a bodhisattva’s practice of generosity? There is no object of generosity that a bodhisattva should not offer to beings, apart from that which will cause beings harm.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan