འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་བྱན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 6

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should also be understood in ten ways. What are these ten? They are as follows: (1) He accomplishes it completely. (2) He regards it as absolutely invaluable. (3) He believes in the Dharma. (4) He always acts without confusion. (5) He desires wisdom and has trust in distinctions of enlightened qualities. (6) He acts as a messenger of the Thus-Gone One. (7) He is a suitable vessel for buddhahood. (8) He holds together the lineage of the Three Jewels. (9) He causes the supreme Dharma to blaze brightly. (10) He completely matures many people.

“Great King, one of royal descent who possesses this fifth attribute and is an anointed king accomplishes these qualities just mentioned.”

After this, the bodhisattva Amoghadarśin recited the following verses:

“The king who always has a sincere attitude
Toward the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha
Has indestructible faith and confidence
And never lacks the following qualities.

“His faith is not contrived but is born from understanding,
And he does not hang on to anything he owns.
Rather, he feels no regret when it is given away.
These qualities are a sign of faith.

“Those whose thoughts are always unsullied
Are unshakable like the indestructible Mount Meru.
Just as a full vase does not move when it is well placed,
Their faith is absolutely unmoving.

“Those who see without seeing and hear without hearing
Are immovable like a mountain.
Such are the characteristics of faith,
Which will not change at all in any situation.

“Wise ones who wish for the Dharma because they wish for peace
Should abandon everything else for the sake of the Dharma
And, after abandoning everything, should not think of it.
These are the characteristics of those who wish for the Dharma.

“When a lord of humans who wishes for the Dharma
Does not listen to the eloquent teachings,
Like a rotten seed sown in a bad field,
The pure instructions of the Leader of Beings will not grow.