འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6.25
The Dharma Council 6.25
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6.25
and upon hearing them, comprehend it all. The bodhisattvas’ power of dhāraṇī is that which allows them to hear the Dharma directly from one thus-gone one without obscuring the Dharma teachings given by a second thus-gone one.
“Bodhisattvas also attain the accomplished power of dhāraṇī, through which they directly reveal all phenomena, revealing the entire expanse of phenomena just as they would a single word of the Dharma.¹⁹¹ It also keeps them from becoming arrogant about this, and keeps them from being careless.
“Bodhisattvas also attain the all-encompassing power of dhāraṇī; through that they give instructions that are revered by the entire world and become themselves revered by the entire world. They attain the power of dhāraṇī that dispels; through that they dispel all the doubts and all the afflictive emotions of every being. They attain the power of dhāraṇī that is all-encompassing and dispels; through that they increase virtuous factors and lessen nonvirtuous factors.
“They attain the power of perfected dhāraṇī; through that they seek the perfection of all phenomena, avoid concepts, and maintain their conduct with no effort of body or mind. They give explanations without the conceptual imputations of language. They abandon without dispelling anything, and they bring about perfection without gathering any qualities in any way. They reduce without diminishing and speak without actually saying anything. They pass into nirvāṇa without leaving saṃsāra, attain the status of a noble one without deviating from the state of an ordinary person, and are victorious over Māra without suppressing others with their body, speech, or mind. Blessed One, this is a discourse on the Dharma of bodhisattvas.”
The bodhisattva Vimukticandra said,
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