འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.1

4.1

[Bampo 4] Furthermore, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Anābhoga said this to the bodhisattva mahāsattva Mativikrama: 'Kulaputra, a bodhisattva must value truth. Kulaputra, the genuine proclamation of truth is the genuine proclamation of Dharma by bodhisattvas. Kulaputra, what is that truth? When a bodhisattva has generated the mind directed toward unexcelled, perfect bodhi, they do not abandon that mind even for the sake of their life, and do not act deceptively toward sentient beings: this is the bodhisattva's truth. When a bodhisattva has generated the mind directed toward unexcelled, perfect bodhi, and later abandons that mind and acts deceptively toward all sentient beings, this is the bodhisattva's highly censured lying.' He asked: 'How is it that having generated the mind directed toward unexcelled, perfect bodhi, one does not later abandon that mind and does not act deceptively toward all sentient beings?' He answered: 'When a bodhisattva understands the truth of suffering, understands the truth of origination, the truth of cessation, and the truth of the path, at that time they do not abandon that mind and do not act deceptively toward any sentient beings. Why is that? Bodhisattvas'