འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་བྱན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8

8

“You should always protect the wise,
Who know the texts, experience, and rites of the Teacher.
Do not fall under the influence of mere words,
For you will undoubtedly remain sick for a long time.

“One who examines the teachings thoroughly
Should focus within in order to truly guard them.
Abandoning the myriad afflictions and karma,
One will attain in particular the supreme awakening.

“Train well in the six perfections.
Through training in them, you will attain supreme awakening.
Put into practice all that has been taught,
And before long you will achieve the virtues of omniscience.

“The mind that relates to objects
Like a bee unattached to a flower's nectar
Or a bird leaving no trace in the sky,
Is a mind, O King, that reaches buddhahood.

“You should follow the Dharma in protecting
Those who have found acceptance and courage for the profound
And hold the treasury of the buddhas.
Never forsake such wise ones, even at the cost of your life.

“There are many people, devoid of Dharma,
Who strive to harm such wise ones;
You should constantly prevent this through punishments,
Or else the way of the Dharma will quickly degenerate.

“If the Lord of the World does not appear,
Those wise ones will be the teachers of the world.
They will light the lamp of the Dharma for the benefit of living beings.
Therefore, devote yourself always to their benefit.

“There are many tens of billions of bodhisattvas
Who do not act for the benefit of sentient beings from their hearts.
They have neither a sincere attitude nor ethical discipline.
The Conqueror will not make prophecies about them.

“Those who act in accordance with what I have just described
Are endowed with the experience of nonarising.
You, King, having listened to these correct practices,
Should abide by these teachings I have revealed.”

Thereafter, King Brahmadatta said the following to the bodhisattva great being Amoghadarśin: “Amoghadarśin, apparently I have all of the shortcomings