འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6.28

6.28

How so? Bodhisattvas fear nirvāṇa but not saṃsāra. When they analyze saṃsāra they gain compassion for beings and attain the awakening of buddhahood. When they investigate nirvāṇa they grow hostile toward saṃsāra, and a bodhisattva who grows angry with saṃsāra undermines awakening to buddhahood. A bodhisattva’s great love and compassion develops by remaining in saṃsāra, but not when remaining in nirvāṇa. Blessed One, the term nirvāṇa applied to nirvāṇa is not accurate; it is another way of saying ‘pacified concepts.’ Therefore, Blessed One, a bodhisattva who pursues nirvāṇa pursues the pacification of concepts, and based on that attains nirvāṇa. Blessed One, this is a discourse on the Dharma.”

The bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, bodhisattvas should not train in too many qualities. Blessed One, if bodhisattvas fully understand and comprehend a single quality, then, Blessed One, all the qualities of the Buddha will be in the palm of their hand. What is this one Dharma teaching? It is great compassion. Blessed One, through great compassion the entire Dharma of the Buddha is in the bodhisattvas’ hands. As an analogy, Blessed One, wherever the precious wheel of a universal monarch goes, there too go his army battalions. Likewise, Blessed One, wherever a bodhisattva’s great compassion goes, so too do all the Buddha’s qualities.