འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 44

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Those are three mental ascertainments.³⁰

“Lord of nāgas, the supreme ascertainment for a bodhisattva consists in understanding the sameness of the entire realm of phenomena. It consists in, with great love, being impartial toward all beings; with great compassion, not overlooking anyone; with great joy, not being disheartened in saṃsāra; with great equanimity, being free of attachment and hostility; by abandoning all possessions, having no expectation of reward; by maintaining all the good qualities of discipline, training, and purity, neither praising oneself nor criticizing others; having patience for the wrongs committed by all beings; having stable perseverance; being committed to liberating beings; having no concern for life or limb in the pursuit of roots of virtue; having mastery over one’s mind through accomplishing the wisdom, absorptions, and attainments of the buddhas through which one is not reborn; not straying from the absence of fabrication through having mastered insight, the higher perceptions, and wisdom; engaging appropriately with all beings through skillful means; and guarding wisdom and liberation of all kinds—the wisdom of hearers and solitary buddhas as well as the wisdom of the buddhas that comes from immersion in the Great Vehicle; enduring suffering for the sake of maintaining the sacred Dharma; not being attached to any accomplishment or veneration gained from properly teaching the Dharma; not tiring of accumulating merit so as to perfect the marks; guarding insight