འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 55

55

“Though the discourses on truth were spoken to hearers,
They do not reach the mastery of complete liberation.
For being compassionate and loving toward all beings
Is part of true omniscience.

“In this teaching of the Buddha,
Those who possess beneficial qualities are the heedful.
They abide in the true nature,
And their domain is beyond the reach of Māra.

“The heedful are without limitation,
While the signs of affliction are limited.
To be beyond signs is to be free of affliction.
Their domain is beyond the reach of Māra.

“I have described those with fickle minds and arrogant thoughts
As doing the work of Māra.
Those who are free of all reference points
Are impervious to Māra.

“The heedful have unfailing mindfulness.
The heedful have unfailing intellect.
The heedful are realized and have conviction.
They are modest and humble.

“Therefore, those who have heard about the merit,
The insight, and the heedfulness of the thus-gone ones
And who abide in Dharma and the true nature
Will become like all the buddhas.

“Those who wish to make offerings
To all the bodhisattvas and buddhas in the ten directions
Will, when they hear this teaching on heedfulness,
Make constant effort their main concern.

“Those who have learned this heedfulness
Develop great joy and faith.
They will forever be heedful ones
And will become self-arisen buddhas.”

When the Blessed One gave this teaching, the teaching on heedfulness, forty-two thousand beings developed the intention to attain unsurpassed, perfect awakening;