འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6.13

6.13

“Blessed One, I wonder if this is a discourse on the Dharma? Blessed One, do you consider my discourse on the Dharma to be in accord with those already given?”

The Blessed One replied, “Ānanda, your Dharma discourse is in accord.”

After Ānanda spoke this discourse on the Dharma, eighty thousand gods generated the mind set on unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening, thirty-two thousand bodhisattvas attained acceptance of the nonarising of phenomena, and five hundred monks freed their minds from the defilements without further grasping.

The bodhisattva great being Maitreya next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, consider this example. Taking the grain after discarding its husk is similar to taking up the Dharma after discarding what is not the Dharma. Thus, a bodhisattva takes up generosity after discarding stinginess, takes up discipline after discarding poor discipline, takes up patience after discarding maliciousness, takes up diligence after discarding laziness, takes up meditative stability after discarding distraction, and takes up insight after discarding faulty insight. This is a discourse on the Dharma.

“Furthermore, Blessed One, it is not the Dharma to mentally aspire. One who does not aspire does not cling. One who does not cling is not on guard. One who is not on guard is not defiled. One who is not defiled does not get into conflict. One who does not get into conflict does not endure. One who does not endure is not wounded. One who is not wounded does not engage or reject, and so is irreversible. Blessed One, the thus-gone ones prophesy the unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening of a bodhisattva who is irreversible. This, Blessed One, is the Dharma. This, Blessed One, is a discourse on the Dharma.