འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.10

7.10

are fearful of karma, make aspirations, and are naturally sincere, gentle, and easy to get along with. Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas who meet these four criteria will hear about this way.

“Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas will not abandon this way upon hearing about it if they meet four criteria. What are the four? They make aspirations to awaken, have attained acceptance, maintain a correct view, and are irreversibly on their way to unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening. If they possess these four criteria, they will not abandon this way upon hearing about it.

“Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas will develop trust upon hearing about this way if they meet four criteria. What are the four? They have perfect learning, have perfect insight, have meditative stability in emptiness, and have attained the power of dhāraṇī. If they possess these four criteria, they will develop trust upon hearing about this way.

“Bodhisattvas will gain realization upon hearing about this way if they meet four criteria. What are the four? They have gathered the requisite of merit, they have gathered the requisite of learning, they have gathered the requisite of wisdom, and their minds have become pliable through the dhyānas. If they possess these four criteria, they will gain realization upon hearing about this way.

“Bodhisattvas will receive the prophecy of their unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening of this way upon hearing about this way if they meet four criteria. What are the four? They correctly see that all forms are forms of the Buddha; they hear about all ways as the way of the Buddha; they are free of wishes, even to the point of not wishing to awaken to buddhahood;²⁰⁹ and they do not turn away from great compassion. Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas who meet these four criteria are prophesied to reach unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening.