འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.24
The Dharma Council 7.24
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7.24
It is to master the Great Vehicle through cultivation of the perfections. It is to orient oneself toward omniscient wisdom through the perfection of skillful means. It is to master the conduct of a bodhisattva through the ten bodhisattva levels. It is to find the gateway to engendering all qualities by seeking out a spiritual friend. It is to serve all buddhas by being attentive to one’s teacher, preceptor, and master. It is the state of knowing everything because of knowing one’s own body and mind.
“It is to be majestic because of being free of pride. It is to have an invisible uṣṇīṣa because of bowing to and revering all beings. It is to perfect the major marks through giving away all manner of things. It is to perfect the minor marks by acting harmoniously with all beings. It is to achieve the state of refinement by clearly explaining the Great Vehicle. It is to attain the state of irreversibility through clearly teaching about the mind set on awakening. It is to overcome all habitual patterns by teaching about emptiness. It is to attain correct discernment through giving the Dharma. It is to attain dhāraṇī through giving the gift of recollection.²¹⁹ It is to attain confident eloquence through understanding the Dharma. It is to be unrestrained in prophecy through the attainment of confident eloquence. It is to attain the form of Nārāyaṇa through patience with those who exhibit weakness. It is to bring clarity to beings the moment one is seen because of being patient with those of poor discipline. It is to have one’s private parts retracted into their sheath²²⁰ because of pacifying the harmful thoughts of others, remaining always in meditative composure, having a preternatural level of diligence,²²¹ and giving the gift of samādhi. It is to be of exquisite beauty because of giving the gift of good conduct. It is to associate with buddhas, bodhisattvas, śrāvakas, and pratyekabuddhas because of one’s connection to a spiritual friend. It is to have the trust of the entire world due to forsaking desire.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan