འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6.23

6.23

their great compassion is to tame beings with patience and gentleness. Their great love is to be diligent themselves in pursuit of awakening to buddhahood; their great compassion is to use that diligence to instill diligence in other beings. Their great love is to continuously examine their own mind; their great compassion is to use that self-examination to facilitate others in their examination. Their great love is to pursue the development of their own insight; their great compassion is to use their insight to increase the insight of other beings.

“The bodhisattvas’ great love is not to strive and not to avoid striving; their great compassion is not to act and not to avoid acting. Their great love is to be born and not pass away; their great compassion is to pass away but not leave. Their great love is to speak while not saying anything; their great compassion is to be liberated without rejecting bondage. Their great love is to be awakened, not understand it; their great compassion is to pass into final nirvāṇa without fading away. Their great love is let the constituents of the body¹⁸⁹ become dust, not bone, tendons, blood, and marrow;¹⁹⁰ their great compassion is to neither exhaust nor increase those relics. Their great love is to give gifts while not giving; their great compassion is to make aspirations while not actually making them.