འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.18

4.18

Therefore I too will be unshakeable and steady in maintaining discipline. I will guard my discipline with all beings in mind.’¹³⁴ Why do they think this? The discipline of bodhisattvas benefits all beings and is a support for happiness. It does not fail as a support for it.

“Furthermore, a bodhisattva thinks, ‘A bodhisattva’s discipline of leaving home brings about the perfection of a mind without harmful intent. A bodhisattva’s discipline as a renunciant perfects the abandonment of all possessions. A bodhisattva’s discipline of maintaining their trainings and vows perfects purity in body, speech, and mind. A bodhisattva’s discipline of contemplation perfects the six higher cognitions. A bodhisattva’s discipline of settling internally perfects the factors of awakening. A bodhisattva’s discipline of listening to the Dharma perfects the four correct discernments. A bodhisattva’s discipline of seeking learning perfects the absence of pride. A bodhisattva’s discipline of serving a spiritual friend perfects the indestructibility of their virtuous qualities. A bodhisattva’s discipline of the perfections perfects omniscient wisdom. A bodhisattva’s discipline of teaching the Dharma just as they heard it perfects their status as a Dharma reciter. A bodhisattva’s discipline of reflecting on the Dharma just as they heard it perfects their dhāraṇī and confident eloquence. A bodhisattva’s discipline of the mind set on awakening perfects their transcendence of all births.