འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.19

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said Subhūti.

“Honorable Subhūti,” said Nirārambha, “those who make no effort can.”

Subhūti asked, “Child of good family, who can apply this way?”

“This way of the Dharma will sound in the ears of those who honored many buddhas, who did not fail to generate roots of virtue, and who honored the manifestations of the buddhas,” replied Nirārambha.

Subhūti asked, “Child of good family, how are the buddhas honored?”

“They are served through one’s behavior,” replied Nirārambha.

Subhūti asked, “How do you know that one is maintaining correct behavior?”

“When one is not adversarial to beings,” replied Nirārambha.

Subhūti asked, “How is one not adversarial to beings?”

“Not giving up either great love or great compassion,” replied Nirārambha.

Subhūti asked, “What is the great love of bodhisattvas?”

“It is to give away one’s body, life, and roots of virtue to all beings without the expectation of reward,” replied Nirārambha.

Subhūti asked, “What is the great compassion of bodhisattvas?”

“It is to wish, from the very outset, for the awakening of all beings, not for one’s own,”²¹⁵ replied Nirārambha.

Once this instruction had been explained, seventy-six thousand living beings developed the mind intent on unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening, and the minds of two hundred monks were freed from the contaminants without further clinging.

Also present in the assembly at that time there was a devaputra named Excellent Mind, who addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, what is the core support of a bodhisattva’s awakening to buddhahood?”

The Blessed One answered, “Devaputra, the core support for awakening to buddhahood is to develop the mind that has perfect intent.”

The devaputra Excellent Mind asked,