འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.12

4.12

Great beings with a retinue of great and distinguished people, they have not turned away from seeing, listening, relying upon, and serving. Indifferent to their own happiness, they take joy in soothing the suffering of others. They are dedicated to the Dharma, are rich in the Dharma, take the Dharma as food, take the Dharma as medicine, possess the treasury of Dharma, and are lords of the Dharma, masters of the Dharma, and give the Dharma freely. They always delight in renouncing, remain ever vigilant, and always delight in isolation. They serve as a ford and causeway in every regard, are like a royal highway or a great sun,¹²⁸ and are like the great Brahmā. They hold the vajra of great wisdom, provide relief through the great Dharma, and have appearances that are never tiring to see and behold. This is how bodhisattvas recollect the blessed buddhas. Recollecting them in this way, they apply mindfulness in order to perfect their qualities,¹²⁹ ¹³⁰ doing so with sustained diligence. Therefore, this is known as the recollection of the Buddha.

“All this is known as a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting the Buddha.

“What is a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting the Dharma? Bodhisattvas apply the mindfulness of recollecting the Dharma by thinking, ‘The blessed buddhas have infinite, limitless good qualities. They are born from Dharma, are heirs to the Dharma,¹³¹ emanate through the Dharma, are lords of the Dharma, arise from the Dharma, are within the scope of the Dharma, are the basis of the Dharma, and are perfected through the Dharma. The major and minor marks of the blessed buddhas are also born from the Dharma, found through the Dharma, and perfected through the Dharma. The thus-gone ones’ ten strengths of a thus-gone one and the four kinds of fearlessness are also born from the Dharma, found through the Dharma, and perfected through the Dharma.