འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.14

5.14

The bodhisattva Nirārambha then said to the Blessed One, “Blessed One, the Great Vehicle takes vigilance and engaging in practice to be essential. The practice is the aspiration to awaken, and vigilance is to fulfill that aspiration. Additionally, the practice is to cultivate giving, and vigilance is to not hope for a result. The practice is to take on a commitment to discipline and not let it weaken, and vigilance is to perfect irreversible discipline. The practice is to begin cultivating acceptance, and vigilance is to realize that phenomena do not arise. The practice is to not grow weary from seeking every root of virtue, and vigilance is to go beyond striving. The practice is to begin cultivating meditative stability, and vigilance is meditative stability that is not fixated. The practice is to be filled with insight, and vigilance is to not conceptualize any phenomena. The practice is to uphold the sublime Dharma, and vigilance is to not conceptually fixate on any phenomena. The practice is to establish all beings in awakening, and vigilance is to not conceptually fixate on any being. The practice is to cultivate all roots of virtue and dedicate them to awakening, and vigilance is to realize that all phenomena are the essence of awakening. The practice is to attain acceptance of the nonarising of phenomena, and vigilance is to intentionally maintain existence. The practice is to display the appearance of proceeding to the seat of awakening, and vigilance is taking unfathomable, incalculable eons to reach perfect awakening. The practice is reaching awakening, and vigilance is to have done the preliminary work. The practice is to arrive at the great final nirvāṇa, and vigilance is to seek the Dharma in utterly final nirvāṇa.