འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.23
The Dharma Council 7.23
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7.23
It is to give away the body, reject anger, defeat dullness, and ignite insight. It is to hold the prātimokṣa vows and not violate the rules of the Vinaya. It is to be discriminating and alert in all situations. It is to have a mind that is unerring, stainless, and luminous. It is to be constant and steady in the perfections and to not give up that effort. It is to know what virtue is and not squander the Dharma that one has heard. It is to teach others correctly while being free of material concerns. It to keep one’s senses restrained and one’s mind settled. It is to be inclined toward nirvāṇa, but not abandon saṃsāra. It is to not be disturbed by success and failure, fame and infamy, praise and blame, or happiness and suffering. It is to know what is appropriate in any given context and to always apply mindfulness.
“It is to have great wealth through generosity. It is to be born among gods and humans through discipline. It is to be beautiful due to patience. It is to transcend the afflictive emotions through diligence. It is to make the mind pliable through the stages of meditative stability. It is to discriminate between worldly and transcendent phenomena through insight.
“It is to be irreproachable because of using the means of attracting disciples. It is to be restrained through the brahmā states. It is to have strong control of the mind because of being empowered by truth, magnanimity, tranquility, and insight. It is to have a mind inspired through the stages of meditative stability and experience the profound through the samādhis. It is to correctly understand what is genuine and correct through the truths of the noble ones. It is to be free of views through the cultivation of emptiness, be nonconceptual through the cultivation of signlessness, and be free of grasping through the cultivation of wishlessness.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan