འཕགས་པ་བཞ་པ་སྒྲབ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2

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“Mañjuśrī, have you still not had enough of making offerings to the Thus-Gone One?”

“Divine being, tell me,” Mañjuśrī asked in return, “is the ocean ever satiated by all of the water that it receives?”

“No, Mañjuśrī, it is not,” replied the god.

Mañjuśrī then said, “Divine being, bodhisattvas seek boundless and immeasurable omniscient wisdom that is as difficult to fathom as the depths of the great ocean,⁵ so they can never have enough of making offerings to the Thus-Gone One.”

“Mañjuśrī, what should bodhisattvas focus on when they make offerings to the Thus-Gone One?” asked the god.

Mañjuśrī replied, “Divine being, there are four things that bodhisattvas should focus on when they make offerings to the Thus-Gone One. These four are omniscience, liberating all beings, ensuring that the lineage of the Three Jewels is not broken, and attaining the array of qualities of the buddhafield. Divine being, bodhisattvas should make offerings to the Thus-Gone One while focusing on those four things.”

“Mañjuśrī,” said the god, “when you were among the Brahmā realm gods you gave a Dharma teaching to Brahmā Śikhin called The Fourfold Accomplishment of the Bodhisattva Path. Mañjuśrī, would you please teach that? I and everyone in this assembly would like to hear it. Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas are not stingy with the Dharma, nor are they tight-fisted with the Dharma as teachers.”

“Divine being,” Mañjuśrī replied, “in that case listen well, pay attention, and I will explain the Dharma teaching called The Fourfold Accomplishment to you.

“Divine being, these are the four altruistic intentions that bodhisattvas generate: