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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.19

The Dharma Council 4.19

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4.19

A bodhisattva’s discipline of not feeling hostile toward any being perfects the indestructibility of the mind set on awakening. A bodhisattva’s discipline of the indestructible mind set on awakening perfects the indestructibility of the Three Jewels.’ They also think, ‘Those who have guarded their discipline have guarded all that needs guarding.’

“This, child of good family, is what is known as a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting discipline.

“What is a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting giving? A bodhisattva thinks, ‘All that can be given is included in the two types of giving: giving material goods and giving the Dharma.’ By giving material goods, bodhisattvas perfect the purity that completes the major and minor marks, purify buddhafields, and ripen beings. By the giving of Dharma, bodhisattvas perfect the ten strengths, the four kinds of fearlessness, and the eighteen unique qualities of a buddha. Habitual patterns are also destroyed.

“By giving material goods bodhisattvas reject all the aggregates. By giving the Dharma they surpass the state of all the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas. By giving material goods bodhisattvas purify their birth body. By giving the Dharma they purify the dharmakāya.

“Child of good family, by giving material goods bodhisattva great beings perfect the strength imparted by their mother and father. No one else possesses that strength, apart from the thus-gone ones and bodhisattvas on the tenth bodhisattva level.

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