འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.22

4.22

“A bodhisattva recollects giving, great giving, and supreme giving, and thinks, ‘I will perfect these kinds of mindfulness.’ That is known as the recollection of giving, and this, in total, is known as a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting giving.

“What is a bodhisattva’s application of the mindfulness of recollecting divinities? It is a bodhisattva’s recollection of the pure divinities: śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas, and completely perfect buddhas. Bodhisattvas recollect them through their practices, good qualities, birth, pleasures, behavior,¹³⁵ endeavors, attainments, and accomplishment. This is known as the application of the mindfulness of recollecting divinities.

“Bodhisattvas also recollect other divinities. They think, ‘In a similar way to how I recollected those divinities, these divinities are the products of virtuous actions—virtuous actions that include the path of the ten virtuous actions that counter nonvirtue. All their appearances, many states of bliss, and sensory gratifications are the ripening of the path of the ten virtuous deeds.’ Bodhisattvas will then rejoice in that divine bliss, and dedicate themselves to unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening for the benefit of all beings. They wish that all beings would have divine bliss, and through the wish that all beings have that divine bliss, then establish the great diligence required to accomplish the roots of virtue.

“Bodhisattvas discover great compassion for beings born in the lower realms and think, ‘I will orient all such beings toward the performance of actions that lead to birth among the worldly gods.