འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11

11

They give up excessive attachment to the body. When the body is lethargic or agitated, they are aware of it. They know what agrees with their body, what sustains it, and what makes it strong. Likewise, they control their speech well. They speak little and their answers are short. What they do say is meaningful and reasonable. They abandon any delight in frivolous talk. Likewise, they also control the mind well. They renounce all unwholesome thoughts.

“By purifying the three places¹⁴ in this way, they strive to make blue, yellow, red, and white visible forms disappear, not grasping at them as characteristics and not grasping at them as evidence.¹⁵ They do not grasp onto the characteristics of adornments and clothing or take them as indications of some object. They do not grasp onto the characteristics of various visible forms, sounds, smells, tastes, and tangible objects, or take them as indications. They do not grasp onto the characteristics of men, women, boys, and girls, nor take them as indications.

“They stay alone in seclusion, settle inwardly, and strive to make the mind stable. Whether taking repulsion as the object of meditation, loving-kindness as the object, or compassion as the object, any despondency that may arise is focused on in the same way, without any physical tension, and the flow of the in breath and the out breath is maintained without interruption so that the wind element is not disturbed. Their minds do not veer off and get distracted. Whether walking, lying, standing, or sitting, they stay with the object and they keep their mind focused on it.

“Brahmā, once bodhisattvas have achieved stability of mind when focused on an object, they enter meditative equipoise on the mind, in which even the mind is not apprehended as an object by the mind.