འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6.3

6.3

Bodhisattvas are bound by the prātimokṣa vow, but they do not think the prātimokṣa is itself sufficient. They adhere to the bodhisattva vow. Bodhisattvas perfectly observe the prescriptions and perspectives, but they do not think those prescriptions and perspectives are themselves sufficient. They also adhere to the prescriptions and perspectives of a bodhisattva. They are apprehensive of the most subtle disgraceful act, but also rely on the wisdom of a bodhisattva. What is the wisdom of a bodhisattva? Bodhisattvas are not scared or fearful of karma or the afflictive emotions because they understand the basic truth of all phenomena. They understand the basic truth of a bodhisattva. What is the perspective of a bodhisattva? Bodhisattvas take the perspective of emptiness; they do not take a conceptual, contrived, or fabricated perspective. They train in the basic precepts upon acceptance. To say they ‘train upon acceptance’ means that they train after accepting the equality of emptiness. To say they ‘train in the basic precepts upon acceptance’ means that they train after accepting the equality of signlessness, the equality of wishlessness, the equality of the unconditioned, and the equality of that which does not arise or appear. Blessed One, a bodhisattva also thinks, ‘I should establish beings in the discipline of the prātimokṣa vows.’ This is a bodhisattva’s training in higher discipline.

“What is a bodhisattva’s training in higher intention? It is training in the eight liberations. A bodhisattva thinks,