འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.9

7.9

They will grasp it and will attain acceptance.

“Mañjuśrī, there are no buddhas who did not follow this way of the Dharma. Mañjuśrī, all of the blessed buddhas who have reached perfect awakening—equal in number to grains of sand in the Gaṅgā River—have reached perfect awakening after following this way of the Dharma. Mañjuśrī, those who seek awakening without relying on this way of the Dharma should know they are grasping for the sky.²⁰⁶ If it is not possible to attain the corresponding type of acceptance without relying on this way of the Dharma, what need to mention unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening? My śrāvakas who are liberated from the two factors, who have meditative stability in the eight liberations, and who have attained correct discernment did so by following this way of the Dharma.

“Mañjuśrī, it would not be better²⁰⁷ to have faith in another system and be born in the higher realms than to hear about this way of the Dharma, think negatively about it, and then be born in the lower realms. Why? Because, Mañjuśrī, those who are born in the hell realms after hearing about this way of the Dharma will very quickly be freed from them.²⁰⁸ That is not the case for those who are born in the higher realms.

“Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas will hear about this way if they meet four criteria. What are the four? They have heard it in the past and rejoiced in it afterward, they attained stability through the great roots of virtue, they are guided by a spiritual friend, and they have perfect learning and discipline. Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas who meet these four criteria will hear about this way.

“Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas will hear about this way if they meet another four criteria. What are the four? They energetically orient their minds to this way,