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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.25

The Dharma Council 3.25

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3.25

They attain fearlessness and the four correct discernments through the perfection of insight. They attain ease and irreproachability in physical, verbal, and mental actions through the perfection of skillful means. They attain the ability, in every life, to recall their previous lives, to go wherever they wish, and to take joy in whatever they wish through the perfection of aspiration. They will not be overcome by any afflictive emotion, māra, or adversary and will achieve eminence through the perfection of strength. They will reach transcendence over the māras of the aggregates, death, the afflictive emotions, and the divine māra through the perfection of wisdom. This, child of good family, describes the Dharma of the bodhisattvas that involves the perfections.

“Furthermore, child of good family, bodhisattva praise generosity but do not arrogantly think, ‘I am pure because of generosity.’ In the same way, they praise discipline, patience, diligence, meditative stability, insight, skillful means, aspirations, strength, and wisdom, but do not arrogantly think, ‘I am pure because of wisdom.’ Why? Because these things should be abandoned once they are achieved. They all arise through conceptual designation, and any conceptual designation, any phenomena that arise through conceptual designation, should be abandoned. That is why bodhisattvas do not arrogantly think, ‘I am pure because of phenomena that are conceptual designations and that arise through conceptual designation.’ Instead, bodhisattvas reach completely perfect awakening upon attaining wisdom by means of referents that are nonconceptual and conceptually unelaborate.”

Mativikrama asked, “Child of good family, what words describe this phenomenon called awakening?”

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